Re: Examples of SQL anomalies?
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:03:49 -0300
Message-ID: <486cf86a$0$4039$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
Marshall wrote:
> On Jul 3, 8:31 am, Bob Badour <bbad..._at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:
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>>Marshall wrote: >> >>>On Jul 3, 7:21 am, Bob Badour <bbad..._at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote: >> >>Exactly. A data type comprises two sets: a set of values and a set of >>operations defined using those values. A value then is simply a member >>of a set which has operations defined over the set.
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> It suddenly occurs to me that what you describe is pretty much
> exactly an "algebraic structure" in abstract algebra.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_structure
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>>>Do you have a definition for "information"? >> >>What's wrong with the ISO 2382 definition? It's the first definition in >>the standard.
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> What's wrong with it is that I can't remember it.
You are the one who uses google groups. I avoid it like the plague.
Search for ISO/IEC 2382-1 01 badour
and shorten things until you find it.
Oh, all right:
From the ISO/IEC Standard vocabularies 2382-1
01.01.01 01.01.01
information (in information processing) information (en traitement de I'
information)
Knowledge concerning objects, such as facts, events, things,processes,
or ideas, including concepts, that within a certain context has a
particular meaning.
01.01.02 01.01.02
data
A reinterpretable representation of information in a formalized manner
suitable for communication, interpretation, or processing.
Received on Thu Jul 03 2008 - 18:03:49 CEST