Re: Multi-precision (was...Please give me advice)
On 2010-10-14 17:43:19 +0200, Arnold Neumaier wrote:
> For me, the criterion distinguishing between good and bad representations is
> whether they can represent highly asymmetric intervals such as [1,1e6] or
> [-1,inf] without much overestimation.
Why? If one uses valid mode, an implementation could still return the
same result for f([-1,inf]) and f(Entire). So, requiring [-1,inf] to
be representable exactly would be useless.
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