Re: Decorated intervals ARE intervals...
Dan & all
On 2 Jul 2011, at 01:04, Dan Zuras Intervals wrote:
> I have stated this before & the current discussion only
> strengthens my opinion that decorated intervals should
> BE intervals. Full stop. Certainly at level 1 but as
> far down as we can push it as well.
It would be nice if the standard could take that view, but what about the "17-byte problem"? I.e., decorating the most popular kind of interval (a pair of doubles) looks as if it incurs severe storage and communication penalties.
That's why the decoration system includes the Hayes/Neumaier "bare object arithmetic" scheme, which otherwise would be pointless.
As someone who has long experience of how computer systems evolve, will you hazard to predict whether the 17-byte problem will be solved by hardware advances or software advances (so we needn't worry about it much); or will continue to be a problem?
John