Re: Database design

"Mark Johnson" <102334.12_at_compuserve.com> wrote in message news:sl3ov157hunkrf9dgf4bq1v97dadh35ikc_at_4ax.com...

> But the order of finish, is. A relation of those in the race might
> suggest one, and not the other, won, placed and showed. But someone
> might object, that's not an ordering, but simply an unordered
> descriptive attribute. I would reply that it represents a proper
> order.

> But I would further suggest another example, in that case, the one
> with which I began. A book. One paragraph does not go just anywhere. A
> title cannot appear on page 6 if it properly belongs on page 34.
> There's an ordering. There's a sort. Term it, partially ordered, if
> one prefers.

> And at what point would a relation of paragraphs, say, which would
> include a sort attribute, have to be fairly termed an ordered
> relation? Or is such simply defined out of the realm of possibility,
> which makes it look like mere semantics, by the popular sense of the
> term?

Have you read any mathematical book about order ? Received on Wed Feb 22 2006 - 14:56:48 CET