Re: Temporal database - no end date
From: Aloha Kakuikanu <aloha.kakuikanu_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 19 Jan 2007 17:14:57 -0800
Message-ID: <1169255697.528770.217910_at_m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>
Date: 19 Jan 2007 17:14:57 -0800
Message-ID: <1169255697.528770.217910_at_m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>
Marshall wrote:
> 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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_%28mathematics%29
I rephrase it as: