Re: The IDS, the EDS and the DBMS

"pstnotpd" <schoenmakers_at_tpd.tno.nl> wrote in message news:ci411b$2sg$1_at_voyager.news.surf.net...
> Laconic2 wrote:
> >>Just wondering, is there any RDBMS implementation which actually uses a
> >>math engine at its lowest level?
> >
> >
> > In this context, I don't understand what you mean by "lowest level".
> >
> > Come to think of it, I don't know what you mean by a "math engine". I'm
> > pretty sure you don't mean a "computer", but a computer is a math engine to
> > me.
> I mean some sort of engine which tries to solve algebraically. The polar
> to carthesian conversion mentioned by mAmsterdam would not result in
> information loss. Something like square root of 2 or pi stored as such.
>
> I suppose this would not perform very well, but I was just wondering if
> anybody has ever tried it.

You're describing Mathematica. I don't know much about it, but I believe it does do these kind of things symbolically as needed.

Marshall Received on Tue Sep 14 2004 - 04:17:08 CEST