Discussing Rump's
333.75*b**6 + a**2*(11*a**2*b**2 - b**6 - 121*b**4 - 2) + 5.5*b**8 + a/(2*b)
when a = 77617 and b = 33096
Van Snyder wrote
> -54767
> It's no surprise this is difficult to compute. The answer is -------.
> 66192
Unfortunately, in my experience, few Fortran programmers enjoy Van's
analytical skills and those that do seldom apply it to every line
of code they write.
Nobody has claimed that IA would solve this problem. I only sought
to suggest that interval arithmetic could indicate where naive users
have used inappropriate coding.
Bob ([log in to unmask])
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