tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17908317.post3316161419266236367..comments2024-03-28T03:15:14.875-07:00Comments on Unenumerated: Partial and total ordersNick Szabohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16820399856274245684noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17908317.post-67480914702840957342007-09-13T14:03:00.000-07:002007-09-13T14:03:00.000-07:00What I wrote is completely consistent with those d...What I wrote is completely consistent with those definitions. What is your real beef, "anonymous"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17908317.post-8707991342214613202007-09-13T10:59:00.000-07:002007-09-13T10:59:00.000-07:00Also, your definition of "total order" is just wro...Also, your definition of "total order" is just wrong. See <BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_order<BR/>or<BR/>http://planetmath.org/encyclopedia/TotalOrder.html<BR/><BR/>or any math book.<BR/><BR/>That paragraph needs to be completely rewritten.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17908317.post-15315440017018904502007-09-10T19:28:00.000-07:002007-09-10T19:28:00.000-07:00Although you are correct that "less than or equal"...Although you are correct that "less than or equal" and Lamport's "time of arrival" are both partial orders, and both can be represented in abstract algebra terms by "<=", once we get more concrete the "=" has a very different meaning between the two cases. In the first it denotes equality whereas in the second it denotes ignorance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com