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A few plausible general reasons

(i) investigating numerical instability (cf. Javahurt p 57 et seq), (ii) running various programs (cf. Borneo spec. polynomial evaluation) that make sense rounding up and down. and (iii) interval arithmetic, discussed below.





Richard J. Fateman
Wed Aug 12 22:44:29 PDT 1998