Re: MV Keys

"x" <x_at_not-exists.org> wrote in message news:dujjre$405$1_at_emma.aioe.org...
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> "x" <x_at_not-exists.org> wrote in message news:dujj87$ac6$1_at_emma.aioe.org...
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> > "vc" <boston103_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:1141399477.707086.33490_at_z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
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> > > Jon Heggland wrote:
> > > > In article <1141393487.167645.153600_at_v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>,
> > > > boston103_at_hotmail.com says...
> > > > >
> > > > > Saying that the date is not scalar is akin to claiming that 254 is
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> > > > > a scalar because it consists of units, tens and hundreds ;)
> > > >
> > > > You say that as if it were a silly thing to claim. :)
> > >
> > > Is it not ? Forgetting about time zones, the date is just a natural
> > > number in a peculiar notation (or if one wants to be picky, a subtype
> > > thereof). Is the natural number a compound type ?
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> > If you do not maintain a history then the date is not a scalar.

> Or a date is not a date if you don't keep the history.

Or without history there is no database. Received on Tue Mar 07 2006 - 10:36:15 CET