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Re: mid-rad, inf-sup, a caution...



Dan Zuras Intervals wrote:

	If one approach were clearly & provably superior to
	the other things would be different.  But it is not
	so.  Both have merit.  And both will be used whether
	we standardize them or not.

No. The simple fact is that in the past, infsup wea always the
only interval data type. The putative merits of a midrad datatype
is purely theoretical, not demonstrated in practice, and has been
considered only in very simple cases.


Arnold Neumaier