Re: Relational operators on intervals: bug?
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- Subject: [mg128645] Re: Relational operators on intervals: bug?
- From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr357 at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:03:58 -0500 (EST)
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$Version
"8.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (October 5, 2011)"
IntervalIntersection[Interval[{0, 2}], Interval[{6, 8}]]
Interval[]
Min[Interval[]]
Infinity
Max[Interval[]]
-Infinity
IntervalMemberQ[
Interval[], #] & /@
{-Infinity, -$MaxNumber, -1, -$MinNumber,
0, $MinNumber, 1, $MaxNumber, Infinity}
{False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False}
So Interval[] is the range of all values Greater than Infinity and
less than -Infinity, appears to be "empty."
Bob Hanlon
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Richard Fateman
<fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> On 11/11/2012 12:59 PM, bertiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> 1. Comparision of any Interval[___] to the empty interval Interval[]:
>>
>
> What makes you think that this is a notation for an empty Interval,
> whatever that is?
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