Re: Call for an API standard for SQL statements

"Fredrik Bertilsson" <fredrik_bertilsson_at_passagen.se> wrote in message news:31f7e57d.0410252143.46cc7803_at_posting.google.com...
> "Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote:
>
> > In fact, my definition of dimension is the most technically correct,
> > since the dimensionality of a relation is the number of attributes.
> > Consider a set of (x,y,z) points: you could record these in a table
> > of three attributes, x, y, and z. But you wouldn't call this two
> > dimensional data, even if a printout of "select * from points"
> > show up as a grid. This data is three dimensional, because each
> > dimension of each row/element varies independently.
>
> So your computer has a 3D screen?

Of course. All objects in the real world are three dimensional; we were talking about data, though. Data can be of arbirtrary nonnegative dimensionality.

Were you thinking it was impossible to work with 3D data without a 3D display? How would you propose people work on 9D data?

Marshall Received on Tue Oct 26 2004 - 15:04:33 CEST