Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Oliver Heimlich <oh...@posteo.de>
* Package name : octave-interval Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : Oliver Heimlich <oh...@posteo.de> * URL : http://octave.sourceforge.net/interval/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Octave, C++ Description : real-valued interval arithmetic for Octave The interval package for real-valued interval arithmetic allows to evaluate functions over subsets of their domain. All results are verified, because interval computations automatically keep track of any errors. These concepts can be used to handle uncertainties, estimate arithmetic errors and produce reliable results. Also it can be applied to computer-assisted proofs, constraint programming, and verified computing. The implementation is based on interval boundaries represented by binary64 numbers and is conforming to IEEE Std 1788-2015, IEEE standard for interval arithmetic. The package will be maintained by the DebianOctaveGroup and, upstream, by the Octave Forge Community. The package is a reference implementation of the recently published IEEE standard for interval arithmetic. It may be used as a free replacement for the proprietary INTLAB toolbox. The latter has been widely used in education for computer arithmetic, for example in the book “Introduction to Interval Analysis” (2009) by Ramon E. Moore, R. Baker Kearfott, and Michael J. Cloud. In contrast to libmpfi and python-mpmath this package provides more functionality, but is limited to the binary64 data type. Some efforts to package have already been made, see http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-octave/octave-interval.git/
