On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 12:17:52AM +0200, Simon Budig wrote: > 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 > well, thank you. an educated and researched response. i concede. carol
