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Re: Distributivity in Tropashko's Lattice Algebra

From: Marshall Spight <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 14 Aug 2005 00:39:02 -0700
Message-ID: <1124005142.765111.210320@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>


Marshall Spight wrote:
>
> In other words,
>
> A join (B union C) == (A join B) union (A join C)
> and
> A union (B join C) == (A union B) join (A union C)
> if and only if A and B have no attributes in common, and
> A and C have no attributes in common.

Ugh, I said that wrong. It should be

if and only if A and B have no attributes in common that are not also in C, and
A and C have no attributes in common that are not also in B.

Marshall Received on Sun Aug 14 2005 - 02:39:02 CDT

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