Re: The IDS, the EDS and the DBMS
From: Laconic2 <laconic2_at_comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 05:02:41 -0400
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 05:02:41 -0400
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"Mikito Harakiri" <mikharakiri_at_iahu.com> wrote in message news:28M1d.54$0k2.197_at_news.oracle.com...
> 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.
In practice we deal only with finite subsets in a finite state device. Anything transfinite has to be abstracted to a form that's representable as a finite expression. Received on Wed Sep 15 2004 - 11:02:41 CEST