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Article #12189Re: Implementing Interval Arithmetic with IEEE rounding modes
From: Richard A. O'Keefe
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 07:32
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 07:32
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In article <1991Jun19.165150.2121@shinobu.sgi.com>, rodman@sgi.com (Paul K. Rodman) writes:
> I've heard yapping about interval arithmetic for a decade and have yet
^^^^^^^ polite, isn't he?
> to see anyone that actually _used_ it. Has anyone implemented a
> compiler with set of "interval" data types?
Wisconsin. A preprocessor for Fortran provided both interval and triplex.
IBM (germany?) Pascal/SC.
Quite a few others I can't remember the names of.
The hard part is not the compiler, but implementing the primitive operations.
--
I agree with Jim Giles about many of the deficiencies of present UNIX.
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