[om] yet again - Standard .. Ontologies for Math

Andrew Solomon andrew at illywhacker.net
Sat Jun 9 21:42:58 CEST 2001


RJF:
>> I'm not sure what to do if they are handed some other
>> things that might be floating around, like "the color purple".

James:
>Right. The point about NumericalValue is that it is meant to exclude "the
>color purple" etc. Quite how one says that formally I don't know.

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but it isn't a requirement
of OpenMath to say it formally. Naturally, it would be nice, but it
is an optional extra. The idea of a CD definition is to inform
human phrasebook writers.

Andrew


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