Hello,
I am happy to announce that IEEE 1788, the standard for interval
arithmetic, was approved as a new standard on June 11. It will remain
active for ten years.
The standard document will soon be published, probably within the next
weeks.
AFAIK, Octave has the first complete implementation which is conforming
to this standard. If you ever wanted to examine interval arithmetic—now
is the time! You can get the interval package from Octave Forge [1].
The current version is already feature complete, but a version 1.0.0 of
the interval package will be released soon, to reflect this important
milestone. I recommend to also include the upcoming version in mxe
builds of Octave or any downstream distributions.
The interval package will also be presented during OctConf 2015 [2].
Oliver
[1] http://octave.sourceforge.net/interval/