Re: The IDS, the EDS and the DBMS

From: pstnotpd <schoenmakers_at_tpd.tno.nl>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 08:48:56 +0200
Message-ID: <ci3fsr$ni7$1@voyager.news.surf.net>

mAsterdam wrote:
> Is this your reasoning? :
> To represent polar(45,1) as a cartesian(x,x) we would need an exact way
> to represent the square root of 2. We don't have that so
> "you can't represent (45 degrees, 1) in rectangular."
Except algebraic.

> That begs the question: why, exactly? or: is it really impossible?
I've got a nice calculator which returns algebraic expressions whenever possible.

Just wondering, is there any RDBMS implementation which actually uses a math engine at its lowest level? Received on Mon Sep 13 2004 - 01:48:56 CDT