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From: darryl@ism780c.UUCP (Darryl Richman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: 0-based/1-based arrays
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Date: 19 Mar 88 00:01:28 GMT
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In article <1886@gumby.mips.COM> uday@mips.COM (Uday Kurkure) writes:
>   In Mathematics, zero means nothing, void. In computer science, zero

I'm not a math major, but 0 is not void.  Void is null (e.g., the slashed
capital O).  This is a very important distinction.

		--Darryl Richman
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