Re: Temporal database - no end date
From: David <davidbl_at_iinet.net.au>
Date: 23 Jan 2007 18:05:58 -0800
Message-ID: <1169604358.675397.104170_at_k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
Date: 23 Jan 2007 18:05:58 -0800
Message-ID: <1169604358.675397.104170_at_k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
On Jan 24, 3:29 am, "NENASHI, Tegiri" <tnmai..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> One can not model the continuum with the floating numbers because they
Evidently you require models to be isomorphic to what they model. I
presume you would say an C++ "int" doesn't model an integer, or a
computer doesn't model a universal Turing machine. I have a far less
restrictive notion of the word "model".
> are discrete and finite like the computer integers.
How would you describe the relationship between floating point numbers and the reals? Pretends? Imitates? Masquerades? We need some word. Received on Wed Jan 24 2007 - 03:05:58 CET