On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:08 AM, David Roe <r...@math.harvard.edu> wrote: > That sounds really useful actually. I still don't think it's enough for a > GSOC project; is there something related we could add? > David
This sounds like arithmetic with *random variables*, which is something a probabilistic should implement. One of the grad students (Tvrtko Tadic) in my class this quarter did some work in this direction, which is linked to here: http://wstein.org/edu/2012/1062/projects/ > > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:23, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Just to rephrase things, there should be >> a) a new ring analogous to RIF that does error propagation (instead of >> interval arithmetic) >> b) the elements of this ring should have units attached and check that >> they match in ring operations >> >> >> On Saturday, March 17, 2012 9:45:58 AM UTC-4, Keshav Kini wrote: >>> >>> I think what Eviatar was suggesting is that constants with uncertainty >>> should be represented with Real Intervals, which is a data type that >>> stores a number as an interval of its possible values. >> >> -- >> 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 > > > -- > 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 -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
