Re: Certified C compilers for safety-critical embedded systems

From: Chris Hills (chris_at_phaedsys.org)
Date: 12/30/03 

Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:36:13 +0000

In article <bssflk$10el5$1@ID-77047.news.uni-berlin.de>, Dmitry A.
Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes
>Chris Hills wrote:
>
>> In article <1731094.1f7Irsyk1h@linux1.krischik.com>, Martin Krischik
>> <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes
>>>
>>>I had my array start at 1 not 0. In C all numbers start with 0 but in the
>>>real world they usualy start with 1.
>>
>> Interesting point. Apparently 0 is the first positive integer.
>
>Zero is the first natural number, positive numbers do not include zero.
Is that in maths, computing or philosophy?

>> Everything starts at 0. Otherwise things would start with 1 or -1 there
>> would be nothing (not 0) between them :-)
>> Zero is a valid number.
>All numbers are valid. What could be an "invalid" number?

My phone bill :-)

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