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> > I was looking for a systematic way to represent arbitrary
> > relationship(s) between any two arbitrary things in a database.
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> Why? i.e. what real-world requirement will this address?
I find that arbitrary things in the real-world can have arbitrary relationships between them. When those things are represented in the database, I would like a general/systematic/practical method to represent them so that they can be processed efficiently, maybe similar to the human brain. Received on Tue Apr 08 2003 - 11:45:30 CDT
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