Gerry Thomas schrieb:
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> For an early critique of one approach to IA see Kahan's and LeBlanc's
> 'Anomalies in the IBM ACRITH package' in Proc. 7th IEEE Symposium on
> Computer Arithmetic, Urbana, IL, pp. 322-331, 1985. ACRITH first died in
> Fortran, was reincarnated in Pascal, and currently reigns in C++.
> Notwithstanding its appeal to numerical analysts, interval arithmetic hasn't
> caught on with empirical scientists/engineers who rely more on their own
sorry to cite more of my experiences at Karlsruhe University. IA has
appealed even electrical engineers. There's one PhD thesis using
IA for computations in liquid cristals.
I admit that one thesis is not much, though.
juergen
> sensitivity analyses and prejudices than all the theorems, lemmas, and
> corollaries that obscure whatever use IA is alleged to provide.
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