Do I have a second? Re: Motion to stop work on the standard
P-1788:
Bill Walster has made a motion to suspend work on an interval
standard (see his appended message). Do I have a second?
Note: As a practical consideration, I think this would effectively
stop the current P-1788 effort, due to the time frame for
delivery of our document and for the sponsor ballot. Starting
up the project again would require another project authorization
request, reforming a working group, etc. I estimate a lower bound
on the delay to be 3 years, with an upper bound of
infinity.
Sincerely,
Baker
On 11/22/2013 11:24 AM, G. William (Bill) Walster wrote:
How can a standard for computing with intervals be constructed if the
result of evaluating any given numerical expression that contains
intervals is ambiguous? I do not believe it can, and therefore, I
believe such a construction is premature. As evidence of this fact, I
the recent discussion concerning the content of Motion 52 is more than
sufficient proof.
Therefore, I move that all work on a standard for computing with
intervals be suspended until such an unambiguous interval mathematical
foundation is developed and published in "The Mathematics of Computation."
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