Re: The IDS, the EDS and the DBMS
From: Mikito Harakiri <mikharakiri_at_iahu.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:21:56 -0700
Message-ID: <28M1d.54$0k2.197_at_news.oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:21:56 -0700
Message-ID: <28M1d.54$0k2.197_at_news.oracle.com>
"Paul" <paul_at_test.com> wrote in message
news:414714c4$0$52348$ed2619ec_at_ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net...
> I think the fundamental reason why rationals are so much easier is that
> they are countably infinite, whereas the irrationals are uncountable.
> (in a mathematical sense).
But in practice we deal only with a countable subset of all irrationals, namely those which are represented by closed-form expressions, therefore it's not quite intuitive why cardinality might matter. Received on Wed Sep 15 2004 - 02:21:56 CEST