Re: Examples of SQL anomalies?

Marshall <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>On Jul 1, 1:29 pm, -CELKO- <jcelko..._at_earthlink.net> wrote:

[snip]

>> Yes, zero is the additive identity. But this is a convention used to
>> get rid of the empty set problem and preserve easy computations.

>If you think that zero is the additive identity by convention, then
>you clearly do not understand what a convention is.
>There is no problem to get rid of.

     Hey, he threw in transfinite numbers over this! We can hand him the ordered field axioms.

>After that, you said a bunch of irrelevant stuff which I'm just
>going to ignore.

     It does make a good shovel though. He has dug himself in deep.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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