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Re: Motion P1788.1/M004.01



On Tue, 17 May 2016 19:22:10 +0000, John Pryce wrote, replying to me:
> > What I meant was that none of the required functions in 1788.1 produce
> > semibounded interval results -- except, of course, constructors.
>
> The intersection and convexHull operations of 6.7.3 can do.  And at
> Level 2, so can arithmetic operations if overflow occurs at one end.

The context was (in light of the issues raised by Lee Winter) TRULY
unbounded, as opposed to the result of overflow (which is still bounded,
even if the bound cannot be determined).  Intersection and ConvexHull
cannot create semibounded intervals from bounded intervals.

Michel.
---Sent: 2016-05-17 18:52:31 UTC