- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 19:05:37 +0100
- To: "Boris Motik" <boris.motik@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Cc: "'Alan Ruttenberg'" <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, "'Michael Smith'" <msmith@clarkparsia.com>, "'OWL Working Group WG'" <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
On 1 Jul 2008, at 18:59, Boris Motik wrote: > Hello, > > XML Schema has already departed from the IEEE recommendation > because they don’t have +0 and -0. These constants are used to > express problems arising while evaluating numeric operations; for > example, dividing 1 with 0 returns NaN. > > How many OWL 2 ontologies containing NaN (that are not a test case) > are there? Similarly, why would anyone want to say “the weight of > individual i1 is +inf”? I haven’t seen a single such ontology. > Hence, I’d just ditch these constants and simplify our task. I’m > willing to personally pay 1000 bucks to anyone who runs into > practical problems because of that. How about in a real currency, like pounds? :) Cheers, Bijan.
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