Re: Temporal database - no end date
From: DBMS_Plumber <paul_geoffrey_brown_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 21 Jan 2007 14:17:20 -0800
Message-ID: <1169417840.155054.213080_at_38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
Date: 21 Jan 2007 14:17:20 -0800
Message-ID: <1169417840.155054.213080_at_38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
Marshall wrote:
> 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."
By definition (DDL's explicitly, in this context), a chronon (and a quanta) is "indivisible".
Besides - given your description, what does"chronon" add? Just use the units. Received on Sun Jan 21 2007 - 23:17:20 CET