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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> comp.databases.theory -> Re: Temporal database - no end date
On Jan 19, 2:41 pm, Larry Coon <lcnos..._at_assist.org> wrote:
> Larry Coon wrote:
> > No. Continuous means that there are no points between
> > which there are other points. Dense implies discrete.
> Fix to the above: Continuous means that there are no
> two points between which there are NO other points.
If I understand the terminology correctly, it is pretty weird. Apparently the rationals are continuous, but do not form a contiuum. The reals form a contiuum. The two terms are annoyingly close together.
Marshall Received on Fri Jan 19 2007 - 18:38:08 CST
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