Carol Spears (carol@xxxxxxxx) wrote: > i was playing with the ifscompose plug-in and noticed a difference in > the tutorial that owen wrote to go with the plugin: > http://www.gtk.org/~otaylor/IfsCompose/ifs_tutorial/tutorial.html and > the current plugin in which the first fractii now starts with 1 and not > with 0 the way owen wrote it. The numbers in the IFS Compose plugin are used as so called ordinal numbers, i.e. they don't refer to a count of certain objects but to a order of the objects. As you can see at e.g. http://www.webster.com/mw/table/number.htm ordinal numbers start at 1 and there is no such thing as an ordinal number 0. Hence the number "0" in the ancient version of the IFS Compose plugin was a bug and has been corrected for the Version 1.2. If you want to learn more about ordinal numbers have a look at http://mathworld.wolfram.com/OrdinalNumber.html Bye, Simon -- simon@xxxxxxxx http://simon.budig.de/
