Hopefully, this will be a characterization
that can be agreed upon so we won’t have to
continue any wild guessing due to lack of
a consistent description.

Thanks for the efforts.

Am 10.01.21 um 07:46 schrieb Justin Paston-Cooper:
> Error: Base sets of nodes, and not base hyperedges. Each hyperedge touches
> at most one element of each base set.
> 
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 at 09:35, Justin Paston-Cooper <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> Can we summarise all of this as:
>>
>> A representation of hypergraphs ordered in a certain way, with nodes
>> represented by numbers, and tuples of numbers for representing the
>> hyperedges. Node values are ordered sets of strings.
>>
>> There is a number of base hyperedges (columns), whose disjoint union gives
>> the set of starting nodes. Over the nodes in each base hyperedge is defined
>> an ordering. There is an ordering defined between the base hyperedges also.
>> This gives an ordering over all base nodes.
>>
>> Define new values for possibly new hyperedges at will by taking unions of
>> subsets from each base hyperedge, and adding a node to the ordered set
>> corresponding to this hyperedge if it exists, or creating a new one if it
>> doesn’t.
>>
>> The orders of these hyperedges and the nodes within are defined using the
>> orders of the constituent base hyperedges, and the orders of the ordered
>> sets of the new added nodes.
>>
>> Queries are hypergraph traversals.
>>
>> Sorry if I’m being obtuse again.
>>
>> On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 at 23:11, 'Bo Jacoby' via Programming <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>  Justin wrote: "Quite an interesting paper. What were the reasons for its
>>> rejection?"
>>> Thank you! The referee wrote that he did not consider me serious. He
>>> thought I was joking.
>>> I wrote an article to en.wikipedia.org, but as original research is not
>>> allowed on wikipedia the article was deleted. However in the
>>> meantime someone copied it to StateMaster.com Encyclopedia, but by now it
>>> is not to be found. Most of my research turns out not to be original
>>> research, but the theory of ordinal fractions seems to be original
>>> research.
>>> The CREDO example was published in Danish in the NordDATA 89 conference
>>> procedings, volume 3, page 779-785. About one out of thousand read Danish.
>>> The example is in Latin. About one out of thousand read Latin. The program
>>> is in BASIC. About one out of thousand read BASIC. So about one out of a
>>> billion can read the paper. I think I do know the other 6. The title is
>>> 'ULTRA-FLEKSIBEL DATABASESTRUKTUR OG KUNSTIG KATOLICISME' meaning: ultra
>>> flexible data base structure and artificial catholicism.
>>> Hauke is suggesting improvements. I have worked with ordinal fractions
>>> for forty years. Understand before improving.
>>> The ordinal fraction data base may be a tree, or a wood, or an array, or
>>> a relational data base, or any combination of these. Knowing ordinal
>>> fractions you do no longer need trees, woods, arrays, or relational data
>>> bases. The CREDO example is neither a tree, a wood, an array, nor a
>>> relational data base.
>>> The CREDO file is not sorted. ' AMEN' is the last word, even if it has
>>> line number 0 because is is included in every prayer. In a sorted file AMEN
>>> would come first.
>>> J programs are compact. I love it! So I expect that 8 lines of BASIC can
>>> be converted into an even shorter J program.
>>> Thank you all !
>>> Bo
>>>
>>>
>>>     Den lørdag den 9. januar 2021 18.49.14 CET skrev Justin Paston-Cooper
>>> <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>  On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 at 15:59, Hauke Rehr <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> My two comments (or, my 2¢):
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> concerning the aleph numbers
>>>>
>>>> is this related to my concern about dependence on order?
>>>> I understand the fractional digits to be meant to encode
>>>> both (semantic) structure and order
>>>> (or else the prayer wouldn’t be the best kind of example).
>>>
>>> Yes I think so.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> After all, that’s why they’re doing ‘more’ than their
>>>> relational counterparts where all columns are considered
>>>> independent of each other and applicable to all of the data.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> concerning people’s workflows
>>>>
>>>> now that’s why I had been talking about the LEO editor
>>>> because the discussion had been originated by a question
>>>> about structuring one’s research; and I wanted to offer
>>>> concrete suggestions as to how to actually get to using
>>>> a system like this without the need of setting up a kind
>>>> of database first.
>>>
>>> I didn't have time to look into it the first time, but Leo looks
>>> really interesting for the document management part. It got me
>>> thinking about Xanadu: https://xanadu.com/xUniverse-D6. Thank you.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The ordinal fractions could then be implicit in the tree
>>>> structure of the nodes (you only have to have a convention
>>>> for which node will be considered the 0 (aka ANY) node;
>>>> and maybe another one on if/how an empty node is to be
>>>> represented).
>>>>
>>>> The query script could then ask for digits and after each
>>>> one give the list of subordinate valid digits and their
>>>> meanings (semantics will be documented at each level);
>>>> this will get a bit more complicated with queries with
>>>> early 0s but then again, they should make sense mostly
>>>> when the semantic structure at subordinate levels agrees
>>>> which could result in a merge of the respective display
>>>> of subordinate digits’ meanings.
>>>>
>>>> but this would require the fractions to be used
>>>> the way I first understood it: the data is to be stored
>>>> in “leaf” nodes only. I guess this would be the easiest
>>>> and most easily manageable – also in terms of maintenance –
>>>> approach.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hauke
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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