It often happens you can not know in advance what is the condition of your query going to be. Take by example the search form of an electronic part store web site. Just for the resistor component, the possible search criteria are:
- value in ohms from 0.1 to 10 million with more than 20 possible values in every power of ten.
- precision (0.1%, 1%, 5% and 10%)
- power dissipation from 0.125 to 100W
- type (carbon, metal, wire wound, cement, dissipated)