Re: Operationalize orthogonality

It's a good question. Analogy from physics, where ratio has no
dimensionality at all, can be not applicable for DB.

To get weight which is twice more than given weight we multiply the
last one by 2. Here units of "2" may be called as "times" :) . And we
can use reverse operation to get this "times" dividing one weight by
second one.

But anyway my previous remark is not about units but only about
sensible possibilities to divide one weight by other one. As I
understand we have to define all sensible operations on domain ever if
units of their results are different that units of operands -
otherwise users will not get some information what can be helpful.

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