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by yongjik 1895 days ago
Currently, either a programmer understands that floating point numbers are complicated beasts, or they don't, and get surprised.

With interval arithmetic, either a programmer would understand that floating point numbers are not actually numbers but intervals... or they wouldn't, and get surprised.

So I don't really see much upside. If you know that you need interval arithmetic, chances are that you're already using it.