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Re: Temporal database - no end date

From: JOG <jog_at_cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 21 Jan 2007 14:22:26 -0800
Message-ID: <1169418146.778841.82360@11g2000cwr.googlegroups.com>


PMFJI as I have no knowledge of this area, and am just trying to interpret the points being made.

I just wanted to clarify the example being given: Children can only be counted, and hence number of children is represented by an Integer. Division operating with closure over the set of integers will clearly not reveal useful fertility statistics. However a division operation over integers does not /have to/ exhibit closure. Can the same not be said for working with chronons? Is it being stated that the DDL model requires that all operations on chronon's must exhibit closure? Or am I missing something more subtle. Received on Sun Jan 21 2007 - 16:22:26 CST

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