On 17-Sep-09, at 3:16 PM, David Harvey wrote:
> > I disagree with this change. One of the main purposes of interval > arithmetic is to be able to take a function f(x) that operates on > floats, and pass in intervals instead, to determine the possible range > of outputs a given input interval could produce. This change violates > that paradigm. The author of f(x) shouldn't need to care whether they > are operating on floats or intervals. As just such an author, I found myself needing to differentiate between floor on 0.2 and floor on [0.19, 0.21]. That was the real "violation of paradigm". If the interval contains arbitrarily small integers, throw an error. If not, return me the largest one such that t is less than the entire interval. Nick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
