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Re: Guillaume's alternative definition(s) of "com"



On 2013-02-19 15:03:16 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2013-02-18 09:23:54 -0600, Ralph Baker Kearfott wrote:
> > What would be the decorated intermediate results for
> > 
> > ( 1/(atan([\pi/4,\pi/2]) )^2 ?
> 
> Do you mean atan or tan?
> 
> And at Level 1 (or in a system where \pi/2 is exactly representable)
> or at Level 2 with intervals based on some floating-point system?

Actually, if you mean tan, the second question doesn't really matter:
since tan(pi/2) is not defined, you would get the trv decoration in
both cases for tan([\pi/4,\pi/2]), and trv again subsequently.

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