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Re: Proposal: 6NF

From: Marshall <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 18 Oct 2006 22:01:52 -0700
Message-ID: <1161234112.685074.274280@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> 





On Oct 18, 3:15 pm, "dawn" <dawnwolth..._at_gmail.com> wrote:


> A nit, perhaps, but which values would those be that we cannot

> represent with computers?




I would be hard pressed to figure out how to represent an
uncomputable number with a computer. Unless we give it a
name like, say, "Fred" and store "Fred" as a string.
But then we're representing the name of the value, and
not the value itself.




Marshall
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