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Re: A Normalization Question

From: x <x-false_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 19:32:46 +0300
Message-ID: <40fbf7b4@post.usenet.com>

"Neo" <neo55592_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:4b45d3ad.0407171916.35c97901_at_posting.google.com...
> > > Multiple occurances of the same string is necessarily redundant. It
> > > requires a limited data model and definitions to obscure this fact.

> > You should give an example with multiple occurences of quantities.
> > Like "this box is 1 cm thick, 1 kg heavy and cost only 1$"

> An example where a single string 'brown' names multiple things is
> posted at www.xdb2.com/Example/ThingsNamedBrown.asp

If you read again you'll notice that this is not what I asked for. Or maybe it is :-)

I asked for an example where a single *number* 1 "names" multiple quantities.
I wonder if you can normalize that more than RM.

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