Re: A proposal for motion 5 "Arithmetic operations for intervals"
On 2009-05-22 10:55:40 +0200, Arnold Neumaier wrote:
> No. The proposal is not short, but 4 pages long, far to long
> for its contents.
>
> Compare the complexity of Kulisch's definition with the simplicity
> of that of the Vienna Proposal, which handles all that needs to be
> said about the forward mode of all unary and binary operations in
> two simple formulas taking less than half a page:
[...]
Well, as I understand it, the Vienna Proposal proposes a definition,
while Kulisch's paper proposes a high-level implementation. But
that's not the goal of a standard to propose an implementation.
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