Re: Temporal database - no end date

On Jan 21, 2:01 pm, "DBMS_Plumber" <paul_geoffrey_br..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> It's perfectly
> reasonably to talk about 2.3 of a "unit" of time, but NOT 2.3 "quanta".
> When we store and reason about children we are not storing and
> reasoning about actual children. Rather, we adopt as a unit the notion
> of a "child", and make the assumption that quantities in this "unit"
> can be real numbers.

Why can't we do the same for time? Why can't we "adopt as a unit the notion of a [chronon], and make the assumption that quantities in this 'unit' can be real numbers."

Marshall Received on Sun Jan 21 2007 - 16:09:50 CST