Re: Proposal: 6NF

David Cressey wrote:
> "dawn" <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1161220126.592530.72260_at_f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>
> I was just calling you on the "it's obviously impossible to represent
> many of those values using computers" line, which says nothing about
> "easily" nor about representing them strictly with digits, for example.
>
>
> Excuse me. "representing using computers" *does* imply representing
> strictly with digits, as long as you are taking the term "computer" to mean
> "digital computer". None of us today use the term "computer" in casual
> discussion to include the analog machines built by people like Vannevar
> Bush.

laughing. Thanks. --dawn Received on Thu Oct 19 2006 - 09:25:01 CDT