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The basic principle of interval arithmetic consists in enclosing every number by an interval containing it and being representable by machine numbers: for instance it can be stored as its lower and upper endpoints and these bounds are machine numbers, or as a centre and a radius which are machine numbers.
The arithmetic operations are extended for interval operands in such a way that the exact result of the operation belongs to the computed interval.
The purpose of an arbitrary precision interval arithmetic is on the one hand to get guaranteed results, thanks to interval computation, and on the other hand to obtain accurate results, thanks to multiple precision arithmetic. The MPFI library is built upon MPFR in order to benefit from the correct roundings provided by MPFR. Further advantages of using MPFR are its portability and compliance with the IEEE 754 standard for floating-point arithmetic.
Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 - 2009, 2010, Spaces project, Inria Lorraine and Arenaire project, Inria Rhone-Alpes, France and Lab. ANO, USTL (Univ. of Lille), France This file is part of the MPFI Library. The MPFI Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public more»
mpfi (1.5.1-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release: + Fixes bug in sub_fr (closes: #674341). + Remove patch already applied upstream. -- Laurent Fousse <firstname.lastname@example.org> Sat, 26 May 2012 01:55:23 +0000 mpfi (1.5-5) unstable; urgency=low * Properly switch to quilt format (closes: #643220). -- Laurent Fousse <email@example.com> Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:05:52 +0200 mpfi more»
2009-04-28 03:00 clauter * configure.ac, doc/mpfi.info, doc/mpfi.texi: Changed version number to something greater than all different version numbers in the doc etc. Adapted documentation. 2009-04-28 02:04 clauter * ChangeLog, NEWS, README: Some history editing for releasing 2009-04-22 19:07 schevill * README: reverted nothing 2009-04-22 19:05 schevill * README: nothing 2009- more»
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