Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr33.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!b137e2aa!not-for-mail From: "Eric Kaun" Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory References: <4b45d3ad.0402222141.3cd35a14@posting.google.com> <4b45d3ad.0402231436.5674aabe@posting.google.com> <4b45d3ad.0402241230.1365e6a5@posting.google.com> <4b45d3ad.0402242223.6e84d475@posting.google.com> <4b45d3ad.0402251201.64dbce76@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: object algebra Lines: 9 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.151.76.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr33.news.prodigy.com 1077819360 ST000 216.151.76.34 (Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:16:00 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:16:00 EST Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: SCSGW\KDTJSOBFH[\ZHL_RH@LZOZ@GXOXZ^L\UQHWIWDUWYADNVOPCKZBL\NX_KHV^GY[KVMG^ZPNHSCZNS[^UXFJVWYXVXKBH[XRWWBBDTN@AX\JSBVH]_@T\EKJHBMZ\_WZJFNRY]YWKSPED_U^NC\HSZ\WS[KEAYI@DO@\K@BP\LD[\GTMPLDFVU]ASJM Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:16:00 GMT Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.theory:24086 "Neo" wrote in message news:4b45d3ad.0402251201.64dbce76@posting.google.com... > (XDb1's solution is > normalized down to each symbol, but this is impractical with RDM). Normalized down to each symbol? That makes absolutely no sense at all. How is that different from no normalization at all?