Oh! AInterval supports Fraction.  I never realized that.

There's no concrete usecase for ^ and / in Interval,
as I said, just concerns about consistency.

- Qian

On 5/13/26 2:38 PM, 'Ralf Hemmecke' via FriCAS - computer algebra system
wrote:
> On 5/13/26 04:19, Qian Yun wrote:
>> If Interval supports negative fraction power, then it should
>> support negative integer power.
>>
>> If Interval supports negative integer power (inverse),
>> then it's natural to support division.
>>
>> Where do we draw the line to stop?
> 
> Usefulness.
> 
> I implemented AInteval, because we didn't have it before and I needed
> interval computation for rational numbers.
> I have no problem with adding ^:(%,Integer)->% (and default
> implementation in AIntervalCategory) (division is already there) and
> generalizing from Field to DivisionRing.
> 
> However, do you have a concrete usecase for intervals in a DivisionRing?
> 
> Ralf
> 

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