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Re: The Fact of relational algebra (was Re: Clean Object Class Design -- What is it?)

From: Daniel Poon <spam_at_spam.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 17:06:33 +0100
Message-ID: <1002297924.582186@kang.qonos> 





> Actually, the definition of "relation"  given earlier, should have

referred


> to "a set of ordered n-tuples"

> instead of a "set of ordered pairs".




Yeah, I guess so. It was taken off a maths web page. I think the current
usage of relation in maths tends to the binary usage, so thats what you see
in their definition.



Dan
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