python bijection

Chris Rebert clp2 at rebertia.com
Tue Dec 1 21:03:31 EST 2009


On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
> In article <85100df7-a8b0-47e9-a854-ba8a8a2f3b98 at r31g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>,
> Joshua Bronson  <jabronson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>I noticed the phonebook example in your ActiveState recipe and thought
>>you might consider changing it to something like husbands to wives,
>>since the names-to-phone-numbers relation is many-to-many.
>
> What makes you think husbands to wives is one-to-one?  ;-)  (Even
> assuming monogamy, you have husbands-to-husbands and wives-to-wives.)

Reminds me of this quite funny blog post:
"Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective"
http://qntm.org/?gay

Cheers,
Chris
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