Re: Draft: P1788.1 Standard for Interval Arithmetic (Simplified)
Walter
On 8 Sep 2015, at 09:46, Walter Mascarenhas <walter.mascarenhas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I believe things would be clarified if the standard
> stated explicitly the expected result for
>
> ceil( [0.5, 1.0]_com )
>
> and
>
> ceil( [0.5, 0.75]_com )
>
> All definitions have pros and cons and we have
> passed the time to argue about "the best one",
> but there should be no ambiguity on the standard
> regarding the committee's choice.
It seems to me the definition of com and dac in 11.2 of the standard is unambiguous, one saying "continuous at each point of" and the other "restriction to ... is continuous". Is that OK?
Pity the example got lost though.
John Pryce