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Re: Thoughts on Parts Taxonomy
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Sun, 12 May 2002 02:55:12 GMT
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http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/4716

Dan, would what you're saying allow more obvious names like "worm gear" - as
I think of it, because that's what it logically interacts with and looks
like to me, at least - help me to find that name for a part often used in
gear-reduction applications?

The name "worm screw" just doesn't sound logical, I've always thought of it
as a "worm gear" as that's how LEGO named it - also, "screw" could be
mistaken to mean threaded, as in screws that are screwed into wood - this
gear definitely isn't a "screw" in that sense of the term.

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Cheers ...

Geoffrey Hyde

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"Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message news:Gvx6oq.LLJ@lugnet.com...
I like the idea of better indexing, and would be happy to incorporate any • new
method into peeron - now someone just has to write it :)

I know that indexing by a non-unique field (which is the part number) is a • bad
thing - it's just the easiest and most convinient.  When (one day), I move
peeron to an SQL backend, that indexing will change, and we will allow • multiple
part numbers for the same part...  as well as multiple different parts • with the
same part number.

:)

Dan



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  Re: Thoughts on Parts Taxonomy
 
(...) that part (and it's name) come from partsref - we try to use partsref names whenever we can, unless it's for a part that isn't available as a dat yet. But even for X numbers (our custom parts), we will eventually rename them to whatever the (...) (23 years ago, 12-May-02, to lugnet.db.brictionary)

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  Re: Thoughts on Parts Taxonomy
 
I like the idea of better indexing, and would be happy to incorporate any new method into peeron - now someone just has to write it :) I know that indexing by a non-unique field (which is the part number) is a bad thing - it's just the easiest and (...) (23 years ago, 11-May-02, to lugnet.db.brictionary)

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