Re: Temporal database - no end date

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:05:16 GMT
Message-ID: <wPlsh.3014$1x.52548@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>

Marshall wrote:

> On Jan 18, 5:56 pm, "-CELKO-" <jcelko..._at_earthlink.net> wrote:
>

>>You don't really think that discrete salesmen and the time continuum
>>are structurally alike, do you??

>
> You don't really think that 64 bit ints and 64 bit floats are
> structurally different, do you?
>
> All of your continuum-based arguments are irrelevant to digital
> computers; they can't handle a continuum anyway. There are
> no irrational numbers reified anywhere in your computer's memory,
> and there never will be.

Unicode reifies the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter as a symbol. That ratio is provably irrational. It is true the point amounts to a trifling semantic quibble. However, the nit opens you to pointless criticism and provides a foil by which the self-aggrandizing ignorant can elevate the image of his nonsense by comparison. Received on Sat Jan 20 2007 - 04:05:16 CST