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Ryan Gaffuri
 
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Default what is meant by the term multiset in a database? - 09-25-2003 , 08:52 AM






I cant find a good answer on google?

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Default Re: what is meant by the term multiset in a database? - 09-25-2003 , 10:23 AM






"Ryan Gaffuri" <rgaffuri (AT) cox (DOT) net> wrote

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I cant find a good answer on google?
A set does not have meaningful duplicates while a multi-set does. Thus the
following are equivalent sets but different multi-sets: {1}, {1,1}




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Default Re: what is meant by the term multiset in a database? - 09-25-2003 , 01:44 PM



A multi-set or bag is a data structure which allows duplicate
elements. A set is a data structure which does not allows duplicate
elements. Neither has any ordering. Multi-sets have modified versions
of standard set operations -- Union, Intersection, difference,
subsets, etc.

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