Re: Relational Lattice, what is it good for?

From: vc <boston103_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 18 Feb 2006 18:20:09 -0800
Message-ID: <1140315609.164239.59500_at_z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>


Mikito Harakiri wrote:
[...]
> Working out the left side of distributivity equation we have:
>
> A && (B || C) = { (x,v,t) | A(x,t) and ( exists y B(y,v,t) or exists z
> C(z,v,t) ) }

With the relations B and C both being empty, you'd get an emtpy set regardless of A. WIth either B or C (or both) being non-empty, you'd get {(x, v, t) | A(x,t) } where it's unclear what domain 'v' ranges over. Is that what you've intended ?

[...] Received on Sun Feb 19 2006 - 03:20:09 CET

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