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Re: Temporal database - no end date

From: Aloha Kakuikanu <aloha.kakuikanu_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 19 Jan 2007 14:13:41 -0800
Message-ID: <1169244820.945602.127280@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

Larry Coon wrote:
> NENASHI, Tegiri wrote:
>
> > What is the 'chronon' ?
>
> There are two ways to view time -- discrete and continuous.
> If time is continuous, then it works like the real number
> system: Between any two points in time, there is another
> (in fact, infinitely many others).

That is not "continuous", that's "dense". Received on Fri Jan 19 2007 - 16:13:41 CST

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