Re: Temporal database - no end date

Marshall wrote:

> You assume correctly. He admitted the possibility of 2.3 children,
> but clings to the notion that time works differently for some
> unexplained reason.

Just to add to what you said, it's easy to overlook the distinction unless you really think about it. 2.3 children are not actual children, but rather a statistic expressed in units of children. So just because children are constrained to integer quantities (biological anomalies aside), that doesn't translate to statistics describing children being similarly constrained. The same goes for time. Even in a quantized model of time, the fact that time itself is discrete doesn't mean that statistics describing time need to be discrete. MTBF is not time; it's a statistic expressed in units of time.

Larry Coon
University of California Received on Sun Jan 21 2007 - 23:23:16 CET