Re: foundations of relational theory?

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_golden.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:35:31 -0400
Message-ID: <spudneZIK4LHZQuiU-KYvA@golden.net>

"Mikito Harakiri" <mikharakiri_at_iahu.com> wrote in message news:7Czlb.35$UP3.188_at_news.oracle.com...
> "Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net> wrote in message
> news:K5mdnVW6QOnLJwuiU-KYuA_at_golden.net...
> > One can measure and quantify simplicity and complexity. Feeling plays no
> part in
> > forming a valid conclusion.
>
> It's fundamentally impossible to have a compexity measure for finite
> objects. A sequence
>
> 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111
>
> is no simpler than
>
> 10100110110101011101010101010101010101111
>
> Martin-Lefs definition of random sequence applies to infinite sequences
> only.

I am not using that definition.

> Likewise, I believe that Pick database is not worth of my attention. It
has
> no credible intellectuals backing it up, it's a tiny niche, its
> mathematically noninteresting.

You dismiss it on belief. That's fine. I don't. I dismiss it on quantifiable measures. Received on Wed Oct 22 2003 - 16:35:31 CDT