fact

Are textual fields ever allowed in fact tables?

Are there any cases where I can have a textual field such as a description in a fact table? I currently have a fact table of meeting events (grain: row per meeting) with a number of dimensions such as date, client, location etc. I need to put the meeting subject in the fact table. Is this ok even though it is not a measure (I have not s...

Microsoft research on fact extraction from the web?

Some time ago I had accidentally found website which was apparently product of Microsoft research on fact extraction from the web, more specifically from the Wikipedia. Right now I would like to have better look into how it works, but the problem is i can't find it, maybe somebody knows what I am talking about and could give me direction...

Ruby factorial function

I'm going crazy: Where is the Ruby function for factorial? No, I don't need tutorial implementations, I just want the function from the library. It's not in Math! I'm starting to doubt, is it a standard library function? ...

Prolog - call a rule with fact

TL;DR: Need help calling a rule with a fact I´ve started out with prolog, coming from C and got stuff working... until they evidently got broken. I´m writing a small car-paint program for myself as I´m learning this new language Im trying to call a rule with a fact (is this possible?), what I want to do is use one fact "cars" and anothe...