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Re: Motion 10v2 released; and atan2



Dan Zuras Intervals wrote:

	Do people actually try to derive point functions from
	interval valued functions by calling them with singleton
	intervals?

Yes. This is important, and routinely used (e.g., in centered forms).

To get a verified interval containing the function value at a given point, one _must_ evaluate it in interval arithmetic with a point argument. (Thus, if the result is empty, it is known that the function is undefined there.)

Arnold Neumaier