Re: Grammatical Inconsistencies
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 19:31:19 GMT
Message-ID: <b4Vhc.1344$17.159553_at_news1.epix.net>
[I'm going to hate myself in the morning for this...]
The cartesian product of any number of sets defines a RELATION. The intersection, union, and symetric difference of any number of sets defines a SET.
Patrick Suppes: ``Introduction to Logic'', Van Norstrand Company, Inc
(August 1968)
Ralph P. Grimaldi: ``Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics'',
Reading-Mass.: Addison-Wesley (1985)
Larry J. Goldstein, David I. Schneider, Martha J. Siegel: ``Finite
Mathematics And Its Applications'', Prentice-Hall, Inc (1995)
Kolman, Bubsy, Ross: ``Discrete Mathematical Structures'', Prentice-Hall
(2000)
Donald E. Knuth: ``The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 1: Fundamental
Algorithms (third edition)'', Addison-Wesley (1997)
Donald E. Knuth: ``The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 3: Sorting and
Searching (second edition)'', Addison-Wesley (1998)
But what would Knuth know since he isn't a ``relational guy'',
Timothy J. Bruce
uniblab_at_hotmail.com
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