Author here. Outward rounding to combat precision issues is what interval arithmetic is most known for (try 0.1+0.2 with "full precision mode" enabled), but that's really a shame in my opinion. Outward rounding is cool, but the "inclusion property", as it's known in research papers, works at every scale! This is what enables things like:
50 * (10 + [-1, 1])
[450, 550]
which is lovely, I think. Adding the union layer to it enables even cooler things, like the true inverse of the square function. Did you know it's not sqrt? Try 'sqinv(64)'.
I made interval calculator actually mostly as a way to test my implementation of interval union arithmetic [0], which I needed for another project: a backwards updating spreadsheet [1][2].
Very nice, thanks for sharing!
Maybe show which upper or lower values are included in the intervals?
A notation I am familiar with uses outward facing brackets if the value is not included in the interval. That always applies to infinity.
Applied to the cases here:
]-∞, -1] U [0.5, +∞[
The excluded interval in between becomes ]-1, 0.5[ then.
That’s how min (and analogously max) works, right?
min(A, B) = [lo(A,B), lo (hi(A), hi(B))]
Author here. Outward rounding to combat precision issues is what interval arithmetic is most known for (try 0.1+0.2 with "full precision mode" enabled), but that's really a shame in my opinion. Outward rounding is cool, but the "inclusion property", as it's known in research papers, works at every scale! This is what enables things like:
which is lovely, I think. Adding the union layer to it enables even cooler things, like the true inverse of the square function. Did you know it's not sqrt? Try 'sqinv(64)'.I made interval calculator actually mostly as a way to test my implementation of interval union arithmetic [0], which I needed for another project: a backwards updating spreadsheet [1][2].
[0] https://github.com/victorpoughon/not-so-float
[1] https://victorpoughon.github.io/bidicalc/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234734
Very nice, thanks for sharing! Maybe show which upper or lower values are included in the intervals? A notation I am familiar with uses outward facing brackets if the value is not included in the interval. That always applies to infinity.
Applied to the cases here:
]-∞, -1] U [0.5, +∞[
The excluded interval in between becomes ]-1, 0.5[ then.
That’s how min (and analogously max) works, right? min(A, B) = [lo(A,B), lo (hi(A), hi(B))]
This is great. You might be interested in Matt Keeter's work on Implicit surfaces, and using interval math for its optimization:
https://youtu.be/UxGxsGnbyJ4?si=Oo6Lmc4ACaSr5Dk6&t=1006
You might be interested in this graphing calculator I made using interval arithmetic:
https://memalign.github.io/m/formulagraph/index.html
Some detail on how this works, including links to the relevant interval math code:
https://memalign.github.io/p/formulagraph.html