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Re:Difficult math is about recognizing patterns by saeranv on Monday August 09, 2021 @06:32PM (#28123139)
Is there some high-level mathematical way to interpret these normal forms?

I am not familiar with relational databases and just googled database normalization to get a kind of crude idea of what you are saying, but all the examples I find don't seem to give some high-level mathematical interpretation of database normalization. And it seems like there should be one (I could be way off here) based on how you are talking about forms here.

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Re:Difficult math is about recognizing patterns by Ericson2314 on Monday August 09, 2021 @06:50PM (#28123281)
My guess is that stuff is kinda iffy from a math standpoint. Relational databases are good but I've long suspected the theory needs to be overhauled a bit as we've gotten a lot better at connecting CS to math foundations than in the 1970s. (And indeed math foundations is itself getting better from that process.)
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