Re: Constraints and Functional Dependencies

On Feb 26, 3:22 pm, mAsterdam <mAster..._at_vrijdag.org> wrote:
> Marshall wrote:
>
> > Of the three lines I quoted above, line (1) is just the standard
> > notation for functional dependencies as best I understand
> > it. The "=def=" is also a fairly standard shorthand for
> > "is defined to be equal to."
>
> On the blackboard: three horizontal lines above each other,
> a kind of thick equals sign. Does this (unicode 2261)
> come through: ≡ or does it look like gibberish?

Yes, that's the one. Comes through just fine. (It's always a shock when my browser renders anything more challenging than ASCII.)

Marshall Received on Tue Feb 27 2007 - 13:39:14 CST