Re: Turing test for OO bigots. Was: Object-relational impedence
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:17:23 -0400
Message-ID: <47d06d74$0$4069$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
>>Tegiri Nenashi wrote:
>>
>>>On Mar 6, 10:38 am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail..._at_dmitry-kazakov.de>
>>>wrote:
>>
>>>>Does SELECT y FROM sine WHEN x= behave differently from sine?
>>
>>>OK, this is actually a good Turing test. So what function the
>>>following query
>>
>>>SELECT x FROM sine WHEN y=0.5
>>
>>>represent?
>>
>>arcsine(0.5)
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:17:23 -0400
Message-ID: <47d06d74$0$4069$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
Tegiri Nenashi wrote:
> On Mar 6, 11:06 am, Bob Badour <bbad..._at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote: >
>>Tegiri Nenashi wrote:
>>
>>>On Mar 6, 10:38 am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail..._at_dmitry-kazakov.de>
>>>wrote:
>>
>>>>Does SELECT y FROM sine WHEN x= behave differently from sine?
>>
>>>OK, this is actually a good Turing test. So what function the
>>>following query
>>
>>>SELECT x FROM sine WHEN y=0.5
>>
>>>represent?
>>
>>arcsine(0.5)
> > Eh, Bob, spoled all the fun -- I didn't doubt you (or anybody on > relational side) would solve this easily. I honestly wanted to clarify > how capable the other side is...
Actually, I take back my answer. I don't know the header of sine; it could have a header like:
sine(x,y,r,theta,sin,cos,tan)
where:
sin = y/r cos = x/r tan = y/x
etc.
In that case, the function you gave above is just the set of real numbers or whatever lame approximation of the reals we are using. Received on Thu Mar 06 2008 - 23:17:23 CET