Re: Idempotence and "Replication Insensitivity" are equivalent ?

From: Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: 21 Sep 2006 09:43:24 +0300
Message-ID: <87odt9sos3.fsf_at_nonospaz.fatphil.org>


"Marshall" <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> writes:
> Consider min(). Min over unsigned 32 bit ints has an
> identity: 2^32. However, min over arbirtrary precision
> ints does not have an identity.

If 2^32 is an identity over 32-bit ints, then +infinity is an identity over AP ints.

Phil

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