HP-50g: help remembering library with Interval Arithmetic

[johnb]

(02-04-2024 10:28 PM)Massimo Gnerucci Wrote:  Longfloat on HPCALC.org?

Thanks!!

I have a strong suspicion that this is indeed the library I was thinking of!

For one, I vaguely remembered that one of the authors was named Thomas. (I didn't remember there being two authors though.) And, more importantly, I remember it was a logical extension of the general theme of the library, not a side item added as an afterthought.

Will try this out and maybe even write a short review. Arbitrary-precision math is also right up my alley. Having that makes a lot of numerical analysis sins go away! (LOL)

(Common theme: World-class software engineers share several tendencies, chief of which is that they are all larcenous at heart and want something for nothing. They'll spend 2.5 days thinking hard to design something that takes a day to code, just to get out of having to spend a week coding something. The resulting code is 10x smaller, 10x faster, and because it's simpler, has fewer bugs. Such "lazy effectiveness" is what I aspire to.)