Re: Temporal database - no end date
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:57:17 +0100 (CET)
Message-ID: <Xns98BD9866B640Avdghher_at_194.177.96.26>
"-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 - 20:57:17 CET