Re: [boost] [rfc] Inexact quantities arithmetics

From: Andreas Pokorny (andreas.pokorny_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-08 16:13:25

On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 10:07:29PM +0400, Marat Khalili <0x8.0p15_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hello to everyone,
> 
> I'm developing a library for working with inexact quantities, like
> (0.3162 +- 0.0079), in other words, for auto-estimating the propagation
> of errors in calculations. I plan to release it under Boost license when
> ready. Any comments (including sensibility of the whole project) are
> welcome.

This looks like interval arithmetic:

http://www.boost.org/libs/numeric/interval/doc/interval.htm
and:
http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2006/n2067.pdf

Regards
Andreas Pokorny