Re: Impossible Database Design?

From: David Cressey <dcressey_at_verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 21:19:11 GMT
Message-ID: <jP4cg.1104$J95.501_at_trndny05>


"Marshall" <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:1148169765.938093.238990_at_i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Bob Badour wrote:
> > Marshall wrote:
> >
> > > Regardless, a discrete representation is the only kind of
> > > representation
> > > possible with digital computers. You play the cards you're dealt.
> >
> > Marshall, if you are going to interact with the self-aggrandizing
> > ignorants please take the time to call them on their bullshit.
>
> Geeze, I thought that was what I was doing. I knocked down
> the complaint about needing to represent time as continuous,
> since it's impossible, and provided the counter of how we
> use a discrete representation of a subset of the reals, even
> though the reals are continuous. I also knocked down the idea
> of there being a problem with applying an order to any
> arbitrary discrete domain.
>
>
> Marshall
>

Yes, but you weren't insulting about it, so Bob dind't recognize your correction as such. Received on Sun May 21 2006 - 23:19:11 CEST

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