Re: A Question on Integrety

"Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com> wrote in message <news:bs1n5i$asp$1_at_news.netins.net>...

> One of the problems with the relational databases I have worked with was
> that I never saw or used local constraints, so all constraints were
> considered global, which does not resemble real world constraints.

Because the several floating-point arithmetic packages I've used cannot represent certain fractions exactly, mathematics *itself* must therefore also be imprecise and inexact.

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