Re: Proposal: 6NF
From: Marshall <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 18 Oct 2006 22:01:52 -0700
Message-ID: <1161234112.685074.274280_at_h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
Date: 18 Oct 2006 22:01:52 -0700
Message-ID: <1161234112.685074.274280_at_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 Received on Thu Oct 19 2006 - 07:01:52 CEST