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Re: Serializability of Transactions and Automatic (Number) Generators

From: Laconic2 <laconic2_at_comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 08:45:24 -0500
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"Jan Hidders" <jan.hidders_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be> wrote in message
news:0C7rd.5858$cB1.283756_at_phobos.telenet-ops.be...


> The integers are in many ways just a clumsy hack




This is true.  But it is also true that, in some ways, digitization itself
could be viewed as a clumsy hack.



There are many circumstance where digitization is good enough, fast enough,
and cheap enough so that it is the right thing to do, regardless of whether
or not it is a "clumsy hack", from a conceptual point of view.



The familiar audio CD is an example.
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