Re: Temporal database - no end date

"-CELKO-" <jcelko212_at_earthlink.net> wrote in news:1169183653.694799.214710_at_v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com:

>>> All of your continuum-based arguments are irrelevant to digital
>>> computers; they can't handle a continuum anyway. <<
>
> Things like pi and e are handled in many programming languages with
> tokens, much like the NaN.

What tokens ? Do you have a clue of what floating point arithmetic or IEEE 754 is ?

>**Symbolic** manipulations like you do on
> paper are just as good as computational ones!! Your mindset is
> limiting the computer! Think about it.
>
> There are two ways to define a set: (1) enumeration (2) characteristic
> function.
>
> This is important. Enumeration must list ALL of the values --
> impossible in an infinite set. Characteristic functions must always
> be able to return TRUE or FALSE .. well, there are set that cannot
> have such functions,

What are those sets ?

>but ingore the graduate level math for now that
> puts in the 3VL that Chris Date hates so much

What grad level math "puts in the 3VL" ? What's this nonesense about ?

Math major, what ? Received on Fri Jan 19 2007 - 13:57:17 CST