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RE: Boundless Space and Identity

• To: 'Miles Sabin' <MSabin@i...>, xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Boundless Space and Identity
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:33:21 -0500

No, that's a good start.  Enumerated space.  Is that addressing 
by name or position?  Are the points on the curve or is the curve 
a boundary for the points inside the circumscribed space?

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Miles Sabin [mailto:MSabin@i...]

Len Bullard wrote,
> A teaser for those who like such:  can one effectively address 
> points in a space that has no boundaries?

Depends on the space.

Consider the integers mod k as a one dimensional space (ie. a closed,
discrete, curve). Every point in the space has a successor (and no two 
points have the same successor), so it has no boundaries, yet we can 
enumerate all the points in the space in O(k) time.

I presume that's not quite what you meant tho' ...

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