Re: object algebra

From: Mikito Harakiri <mikharakiri_at_iahu.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 15:08:51 -0800
Message-ID: <gPO1c.54$ia.152@news.oracle.com>

"Neo" <neo55592_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:4b45d3ad.0403041447.4689ac7f_at_posting.google.com...
> > I don't know what you mean by normalize
>
> In TDM/XDb1, normalize means to replace a duplicate thing with a
> reference to the orginal thing. For example, given "john isa person"
> and "john obeys army", one observes that the "john" in the second
> sentence is a duplicate of "john" in the first sentence. The second
> sentence becomes "->john obeys army".

Likewise,

"Neo has funnyNormalizationInterpretation"
"Neo has watchedTooMuchMatrix"
"Neo has workingToBecome#1Troll"

becomes

"Neo has funnyNormalizationInterpretation"
"->Neo ->has watchedTooMuchMatrix"
"->->Neo ->->has workingToBecome#1Troll"

That is really mind boggling, ya know. Received on Thu Mar 04 2004 - 17:08:51 CST