# "I'll see you when I see you"

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 30, 2013, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-see-you-when-i-see-you/672609 "2013-10-30T00:33:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-see-you-when-i-see-you/672609/21 "2013-10-30T17:53:21Z")

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> [@Dervorin](#):
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> As someone who works extensively with databases, I’m going to have to disagree with you there. Love doesn’t have a defined breadth of 0; the whole notion of breadth is undefined for something abstract like love. Therefore, the breadth of love is, by database convention, NULL, and NULL != NULL. The notion of the breadth of love is as meaningless and undefined as, say, the grumpiness of blue, or the zondliness of the UN.
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> Whether this statement about breadth is also true for a mathematical line is left as as exercise for the reader, although I would suggest that since it has a defined width of 0, it is true.

null != null except when null == null , objectively speaking.

it happens when it happens.

And everyone knows that blue is not grumpiness - blue is happy - the blues is sad - and grey is everywhere in between.

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