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Re: Temporal database - no end date

From: Marshall <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 18 Jan 2007 19:44:27 -0800
Message-ID: <1169178266.918202.73520@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> 





On Jan 18, 5:56 pm, "-CELKO-" <jcelko..._at_earthlink.net> wrote:

>




> You don't really think that discrete salesmen and the time continuum

> are structurally alike, do you??




You don't really think that 64 bit ints and 64 bit floats are
structurally different, do you?



All of your continuum-based arguments are irrelevant to digital
computers; they can't handle a continuum anyway. There are
no irrational numbers reified anywhere in your computer's memory,
and there never will be.




Marshall
Received on Thu Jan 18 2007 - 21:44:27 CST












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