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Re: Temporal database - no end date

From: DBMS_Plumber <paul_geoffrey_brown_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 19 Jan 2007 14:05:36 -0800
Message-ID: <1169244336.517382.176140@s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

NENASHI, Tegiri wrote:
> "DBMS_Plumber" <paul_geoffrey_brown_at_yahoo.com> wrote in
> news:1169239340.938970.215230_at_s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
>
>
> > My technical observation is that using chronons to discretize time
> > implies that mathematical operations over temporal quantities lose
> > information.
>
>
> What is the 'chronon' ?

 Check upthread.

  Date / Darwen / Lorentzos use 'time quanta' - but it's the same thing. Received on Fri Jan 19 2007 - 16:05:36 CST

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