Re: Temporal database - no end date
From: Marshall <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 21 Jan 2007 14:09:50 -0800
Message-ID: <1169417390.216551.239970_at_s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
Date: 21 Jan 2007 14:09:50 -0800
Message-ID: <1169417390.216551.239970_at_s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
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.
Marshall Received on Sun Jan 21 2007 - 23:09:50 CET