Re: The horse race
From: Mark Johnson <102334.12_at_compuserve.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:30:14 -0800
Message-ID: <hrepv15gu3p1rnn38db9ab8n2l7k07g93g_at_4ax.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:30:14 -0800
Message-ID: <hrepv15gu3p1rnn38db9ab8n2l7k07g93g_at_4ax.com>
"Marshall Spight" <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>Yes, exactly. *Any* relation R on SxS that is reflexive, antisymmetric,
>and transitive *is* by definition a partial order on S. It doesn't even
>have to have been generated by using a single attribute; it could be
>some combination thereof.
Some combination even? But that's not what you told me.
So you do say that a relation, even unrelated to any other, might be described as, partially ordered? Sorted? Received on Wed Feb 22 2006 - 20:30:14 CET