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by jeffdavis 5045 days ago
"One of the conditions of the 1NF is that each row and column contain one and only one value."

There is no useful differentiation between atomic and non-atomic values. A timestamp is made up of a date and a time, a string is an array of characters, a real number has a sign and magnitude, etc.

I suppose you could just use boolean only, which could be regarded as "atomic".