The document discusses mathematical operations and intervals involving real numbers. Some key points:
- Various mathematical operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are described when the operands are within given intervals. For example, if a is in [a,b] and c is in [c,d], then a+c is in [a+c, b+d].
- Properties of intervals are defined, such as the inverse of a number in [a,b] being in [1/b, 1/a].
- Material properties like stiffness, density and tensile strength for 5 materials fall within given numerical ranges.
- A method is described to calculate the similarity between data points using their