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- From: orc@vpnet.chi.il.us (david parsons)
- Subject: Re: Het males & bi-femmes
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.212358.23156@vpnet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Department of Atomic Text Units
- References: <85883@ut-emx.uucp> <1992Dec31.041804.23189@nwnexus.WA.COM> <C0549I.Fsw.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 21:23:58 GMT
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- (Yes, this is a second followup to the same post. I'm a math dweeb
- at heart, I guess...)
-
-
- In article <C0549I.Fsw.1@cs.cmu.edu> pooh+@cs.cmu.edu (Will Timmins) writes:
- |Well, one person has a simple relationship with hirself.
- |Two people have a variety of interactions between them-
- | How does A relate to B? (A->B)
- | How does B relate to A? (B->A)
- | How does the PAIR hold? (A=B)
-
- This can either be expressed as a single duple or a pair of
- duples. Relationship implies how the people react to each other,
- so doing (A,B) by itself is good at abstracting the feelings. If
- you want to express differing levels of emotional feelings between
- the people, you can express the relationships as (A->B,B->A), where
- x->y refects the emotional attraction by x for y.
-
- With a simple couple, this might not be important; when other
- people are thrown into the mix (like with a triangle), jealousy and
- other complications enter into the tangle, and make the attraction
- duple a better descriptor of the relationship.
-
- So a triangle could be described as
- (A->B,B->A)
- (A->C,C->A)
- (B->C,C->B)
-
- and you won't need the relationship->person interaction duples.
-
- Think of it as simple vector analysis and relationships - at
- least the ones you're not involved in - become quite simple :-)
-
-
- ____ Who's quite likely forgotten all he ever knew
- david parsons \bi/ (BA Maths, 1984) about mathematics, because
- \/ database whores don't need to think.
-