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There are actually quite a number of places where Mathematica gives a wrong answer and unum math does not! For example, if you ask Mathematica to find all real
by jlgustafson 11y ago
There are actually quite a number of places where Mathematica gives a wrong answer and unum math does not! For example, if you ask Mathematica to find all real values of x for which 1 == 1, it returns the empty set. Unum math correctly returns the entire real number line.
- bane 11y agoGreat! Welcome to HN. Since you're here and I posted your slides, I'm wondering what you see as the most significant challenges towards implementation of this idea and what kind of performance delta (plus or minus) we might see over the existing standards?
- haddr 11y agoI suppose that's the consequence of the ubiquity of IEEE floating point standard... I worry that we will have to live with that for some time still...