Re: citations of nature

"Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com> wrote in message news:bt5num$1ko$1_at_news.netins.net...
> "mountain man" <hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op> wrote in message
> news:DlUIb.73073$aT.40705_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> > Unusual request: has anyone ever come across any
> > articles or references in articles related to databases
> > in which the author points to "theoretical database
> > concepts" as embodied in any form of natural
> > phenomena.
> >
> >
> > Do primitive databases exist in nature in some form?
> > If so, in what form(s)?
> >
>
> What about something simple like the rings in a tree trunk storing
> information about the age of the tree?
>
> The data are stored, updated in physical storage as the information
changes,
> and can be retrieved. --dawn

Nice one Dawn .... thanks.

Laterally extending your contribution
we might also consider other similar information stored in other various materials by a multitude of mechanisms.

EG: ice-cores from the poles, rock drilling cores from the planets crust, the geo-magnetic information from crystaline orientation, all layered sedimentary deposits, etc.

However --- a question ...

Is is satisfactory to consider a general computer database system as data storage, updating and retrieval only, or must other features be present to satisfy the "basic elements" of such a system from the perspective of database theory? Received on Sun Jan 04 2004 - 00:52:03 CET