Re: A Logical Model for Lists as Relations
From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 20:33:15 +0200
Message-ID: <44638368$0$31652$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
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> I went searching for a reference and was surprised to discover that
> there is no agreement on these terms!
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 20:33:15 +0200
Message-ID: <44638368$0$31652$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
Marshall Spight wrote:
> Brian Selzer wrote:
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>>Marshall Spight wrote: >> >>>But a list can be described as a relation. Most simply, an infinite >>>list is a relation from the natural numbers to the target set, >>>and a finite list is a relation from some finite contiguous subset >>>[0..n] of the naturals to the target set. Generalizing, we could >>>describe an n-ary list as a relation with an index attribute and >>>zero or more other attributes. >> >>I thought that whole numbers begin with 0 and natural numbers begin with 1.
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> I went searching for a reference and was surprised to discover that
> there is no agreement on these terms!
Could I lure you into proposing a "natural numbers" entry for the c.d.t. glossary? Received on Thu May 11 2006 - 20:33:15 CEST
