Re: A Normalization Question

From: Steve Lancour <stevel_at_lancour.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 01:19:29 -0400
Message-ID: <CuudnRxJ3pftGnbdRVn-gQ@comcast.com>

Neo wrote:

>>You have to show that in the tuple ("brown", "brown", "brown") the 
>>string "brown" each time represents the same fact.

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>
> The first, second and third string "brown" represent the same fact.
> Each string "brown" is composed of the symbols "b", "r", "o", "w", "n"
> in successive order. If you give me an accurate definition of fact and
> I will show that the string "brown" is/can be a fact.
>
>

>>>It requires a limited data model to ignore this fact.
>>
>>It's true in any data model we know.

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> May be true in models that "we" knows, but "we" don't know all data
> models (or at least that of XDb1/TDM).

Neo,

It appears to me the left vertical leg of the letter "r" in "brown" is the same as the left vertical leg of the letter "n". The curved part of the "r" looks like the curved part of the "n". Further, the circular part of the "b" looks suspiciously similar to the rightmost 135 degrees of the "o". Cannot, then, this example be further "normalized"?

Steve Lancour Received on Wed Jul 07 2004 - 00:19:29 CDT