Dear all,
I finally found the time to complete an interval arithmetic
library in which I have been working for some time (by
completing I mean having the code, a manual and
about 1000 tests)
This message contains a copy of the manual and an
article about the library. You can obtain the code by
sending me an email message (I would like to estimate
the size of the set of people which would ever look
at it, to know if it is not empty for instance)
The library is open source, and I will send you
the source code.
It is quite likely that the manual has silly typos,
that it is unclear, and that my English can be improved.
So I would like to hear your comments about it.
The code may still have bugs too and I will be glad
to correct them.
At first, I started to write a library which would be
fully compliant with the IEEE standard. However,
along the way I changed my mind. For instance,
I concluded that decorations are not useful for the
applications that I have in mind
and decided not to support them.
There are some other points in
which the library does not comply to the standard
(which are mentioned in the manual.)
Please do not take this lack of compliance as
an attack on the standard. I do believe that it
is a valid effort and my library benefited a lot
from it.
Finally, as a result of my experience, I would
like to make one suggestion: why not to provide
a simplified simplified version of the standard
which does not contemplate decorations?
I believe this simplified simplified standard would
be enough for the vast majority of users and
would be much easier to implement (test,
maintain and document.)
regards,
walter.