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Posted by dorayme on 04/10/06 14:10
In article <Xns97A15C2E45C3Ajkorpelacstutfi@193.229.4.246>,
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> ... also reflected in HTML. In client-side image maps, the coordinate
> values used in <area> elements are indexes in a sense, and they start from
> zero, i.e. the upper left corner of the image is (0,0).
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> http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html4-updates/errata
>
> After about five years, they still haven't decided on this. This confusion is
> quite unnecessary, since starting from (0,0) is the only sensible way, and
> the examples in the specification make it clear that (0,0) shall it be.
I agree it is very sensible. Measuring almost anything, it is
most natural and practical to start at 0.
In Sudoku, where there are but ten kinds of (any type of) things,
it is particularly sensible to use 0-9. It has the elegance of
each item being quite unique and of similar size ("10" being
bigger than "9" in look and, furthermore, a composite of "0" and
"1" which, potentially confusedly, repeats elements already
used). In this example, there are just ten items and no
particular order, 0 is neither the first nor the tenth. Not in
Sudoku at least.
--
dorayme
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