OT: floats

[Dukc]

Quirin Schroll kirjoitti 14.6.2024 klo 15.15:
> Interval arithmetic (even on precise numbers such as rationals) fails 
> when the operations blow up the bound to infinity. This can happen 
> because of two reasons: The actual bounds blow up (i.e. the algorithm 
> isn’t well-conditioned, evidenced by analysis), or analysis shows the 
> bounds are actually bounded, but interval arithmetic doesn’t see it. An 
> example for the latter case:


We're drifting off-topic as this isn't related to bitfields anymore.  It 
was largely my fault since I kinda started it by asking you the 
unrelated guestion about floats - sorry. Anyway, let's move this 
discussion to another thread or stop it here.