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Re: Relational operators on intervals: bug?
Posted:
Nov 15, 2012 4:07 AM
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On Nov 14, 2012, at 5:39 AM, Andrzej Kozlowski <akozlowski@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 14 Nov 2012, at 07:28, Richard Fateman <fateman@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
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>> On 11/12/2012 9:13 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
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>>>
>>> Here is the empty interval in Mathematica:
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>>> Interval[{1, 0}]
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>>> Indeed:
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>>> Resolve[Exists[x, IntervalMemberQ[Interval[{1, 0}], x]]]
>>> False
>>>
>> Apparently this doesn't mean what you think it does. It gives the same
>> answer for Interval[{0,1}].
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> Of course that is because
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> IntervalMemberQ[Interval[{0, 1}], x]
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> False
What remains surprising to me is:
Resolve[Exists[x, x \[Element] Reals, IntervalMemberQ[Interval[{0, 1}], x]]]
False
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