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From: "x" <x@not-exists.org>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory
Subject: Re: Operationalize orthogonality
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 16:01:12 +0300
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"David Cressey" <dcressey@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:H3Xeg.6315$o%3.4122@trndny07...
>
> "x" <x@not-exists.org> wrote in message news:e5hbn7$n4i$1@nntp.aioe.org...
> >
> > "U-gene" <grigoriev-e@yandex.ru> wrote in message
> > news:1148989329.212230.40130@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > > >How you measure lengts in meters ?
> >
> > > I'm afraid to answer your question ;-).
> > Don't worry. I don't bite. Maybe others.
> >
> > > Do you remenber cork what is both round and square simultaneously?
> > Yes. I put it in the neck of evry bottle still not empty.
> >
> >

> OK, I'll bite:

When I said "bite" above, I was talking about some dog bites, not about you.

> How do you measure length in meters?

> By measuring the ratio between the length to be measured and the length of
> the standard meter.

How do you measure the ratio. Don't answer that.
What it represent ? Is it a relation ?
Maybe we should consider some other units like C and K for temperature or
some other convertions with a slightly more complex formula.