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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "Numerical Recipes in C" is nonportable code
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Date: 1 Sep 88 06:43:06 GMT
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In article <554@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> rob@raksha.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere) writes:
>Trivial refutation time!  Surely it is obvious that ``numerical
>problems'' forms a (large) superset of ``array/matrix code'' as far as
>numerical analysis is concerned?

Trivial indeed!  If the code does not involve arrays/matrices,
the issue of 0-based or 1-based indexing doesn't even arise.