package interval_base

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An interval library for OCaml (base package)

Install

Dune Dependency

Authors

Maintainers

Sources

interval-1.5.1.tbz
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Description

This library define basic interval operations. It is supported on all platforms.

Tags

interval science

Published: 08 May 2019

README

README.md

Interval

This is an interval arithmetic library for OCaml. Here is a small example in the REPL:

# #require "interval_intel";;
~/.opam/4.06.1/lib/interval_base: added to search path
~/.opam/4.06.1/lib/interval_base/interval.cma: loaded
~/.opam/4.06.1/lib/interval_intel: added to search path
~/.opam/4.06.1/lib/interval_intel/interval_intel.cma: loaded
# open Interval_intel;;
# let v = I.v 1. 1.;;
val v : Interval.t = {Interval.low = 1.; high = 1.}
# I.sin v;;
- : Interval_intel.t =
{low = 0.841470984807896505; high = 0.841470984807896616}

Several OPAM packages are provided by this repository:

  • interval_base: basic interval library that defines the datatype Interval.t and uses Intel assembly if possible or C99 instructions to perform arithmetic operations.

  • interval_crlibm: relies on crlibm to implement the interval operations. CRlibm provides proved correctly-rounded operations, so this is the library of choice for computer assisted proofs.

  • interval_intel: use Intel FPU instructions with directed rounding to implement interval operations. However, the Intel FPU operations may not always be correctly rounded for, say, trigonometric functions.

    interval_intel uses assembly code to compute all operations with proper rounding, and currently ONLY works on Intel processors. The package has been developed for Linux systems but works on MacOSX and Windows when compiled with GCC.

  • interval is a meta-package installing all the packages above.

Note that ocamlopt does float constant propagation in round to the nearest mode which may invalidate interval computations. Use the compiler flag -no-float-const-prop to deactivate it.

Happy interval programming...

Installation

The easier way to install this library is to use OPAM:

opam install interval

interval is a meta-package that will install all packages mentioned above.

If you cloned this repository, first install dune and type make in the main directory. This will compile the libraries, the examples and run basic tests. You can compile the examples with The programs of the examples will be in _build/default/examples/.

Documentation

To documentation is build using dune build @doc and will be in _build/default/_doc/ in HTML format. You can also consult the interfaces of

or online. It is extremely wise to read the whole documentation, even if you intend to only use the Interval_intel module.

Some examples are available in the examples/ directory. There is a B_AND_B sub-directory with an example of a branch-and-bound algorithm that uses interval arithmetics for function optimization (the example is for the Griewank function, but you can substitute any function you like).

Tests

Tests are available in the tests/ directory. They are mainly for debugging purpose and quite complicated. You may run them (make tests) to check that everything is working properly for your machine. The test program runs also a speed test for your particular architecture.

Bug reports should be open at https://github.com/Chris00/ocaml-interval/issues

Remark: This library was originally published on Jean-Marc Alliot website but was moved to Github with the permission of the authors.

Dependencies (3)

  1. dune-configurator
  2. dune >= "1.3"
  3. ocaml >= "4.03"

Dev Dependencies

None

Used by (3)

  1. interval = "1.5.1"
  2. interval_crlibm = "1.5.1"
  3. interval_intel = "1.5.1"

Conflicts

None

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