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From: Marshall <marshall.spight@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory
Subject: Re: Is a function a relation?
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:56:51 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jun 24, 10:31=A0am, Tegiri Nenashi <TegiriNena...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 23, 8:27=A0pm, Marshall <marshall.spi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=3D10.1.1.35.7134
>
> On page 7:
> "...even defining division by zero to yield zero..."
> This prompted the following definition:
> "Computer science is a branch of applied mathematics that defines
> division by zero to yield zero"

The author of the paper was talking about someone else's system,
and I don't think this was an endorsement of it.

I don't see how forcing every function to be total is a workable plan,
although it does appeal to some people.


Marshall