Re: identifying entities across database updates (was: Is a function a relation?)

From: none <rp_at_raampje.>
Date: 14 Jul 2009 20:24:54 GMT
Message-ID: <4a5ce996$0$8664$703f8584_at_news.kpn.nl>


Tegiri Nenashi wrote:

>Bad example. It is computer science that defines state machines as 5
>tuple something. When I see 5 (and CS routinely offers definitions
>longer than that!) tuple I just stop reading. Compare it to math where
>automaton is defined by matrix action in a vector space. As somebody
>from math forum eloquently put it "computer buffs tend to complicate
>things".

Good point. Now, are states part of Brian's object universe, or aren't they?

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Reinier
Received on Tue Jul 14 2009 - 22:24:54 CEST

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