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interval arithmetic

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interval arithmetic [′in·tər·vəl ə′rith·mə·tik]
(computer science)
A method of numeric computation in which each variable is specified as lying within some closed interval, and each arithmetic operation computes an interval containing all values that can result from operating on any numbers selected from the intervals associated with the operands. Also known as range arithmetic.
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