Re: Natural keys vs Aritficial Keys
From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 03:31:23 GMT
Message-ID: <f6KRl.29094$PH1.27226_at_edtnps82>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 03:31:23 GMT
Message-ID: <f6KRl.29094$PH1.27226_at_edtnps82>
toby wrote:
...
> If expressing exact rationals is what you want, then that is trivially
> done using integer arithmetic - as is fixed point decimal. Hardware
> decimals, which essentially died with the VAX, don't help you express
> rationals.
> ...
VAX died for other reasons, not that one. One I can remember is DPL which stood for "Dennis' Programming Language". Probably the Beaver was into it too. Received on Sat May 23 2009 - 05:31:23 CEST