Borelian sets are formed by enumerable union, intersection or complement, of intervals.
Borel enables performing regular operations on intervals of any comparable class.
Borel borrows many of the ideas (and code) from the Intervals gem. However it differs from Intervals in which it's aim is not on numerical precision and calculation, but on ease of use and solving some general interval related problems.
You may install it traditionally, tipically for interactive sessions:
$ gem install borel
Or just put this somewhere on your application's Gemfile
gem 'borel'An Interval can be initialized with an empty, one or two sized array
(respectively for an empty, degenerate or Simple interval), or
an array of one or two sized arrays (for a Multiple interval).
Interval[]
Interval[1]
Interval[0,1]
Interval[[0,1],[2,3],[5]]Another way to initialize an Interval is by using the
#to_interval method extension.
nil.to_interval # -> Interval[]
1.to_interval # -> Interval[1]
(1..2).to_interval # -> Interval[1,2]
(1...3).to_interval # -> Interval[1,2]
[1,2].to_interval # -> Interval[1,2]The Infinity constant is available for specifying intervals
with no upper or lower boundary.
Interval[-Infinity, 0]
Interval[1, Infinity]
Interval[-Infinity, Infinity]Some natural properties of intervals:
Interval[1,2].inf # -> 1
Interval[1,2].sup # -> 2
Interval[1].degenerate? # -> true
Interval[[0,1],[2,3]].simple? # -> false
Interval[].empty? # -> true
Interval[1,5].include?(3.4) # -> true- Complement
#complement, alias: #~
~Interval[0,5] # -> Interval[[-Infinity, 0], [5, Infinity]]- Union
#union, aliases: #|,#+
Interval[0,5] | Interval[-1,3] # -> Interval[-1,5]- Intersection
#intersect, aliases: #&,#^
Interval[0,5] ^ Interval[-1,3] # -> Interval[0,3]- Subtraction
#minus, alias: #-
Interval[0,5] - Interval[-1,3] # -> Interval[3,5]You may use any Comparable class:
- String
Interval['a','c'] ^ Interval['b','d'] # -> Interval['b','c']
Interval['a','c'] | Interval['b','d'] # -> Interval['a','d']- Time
def t(seconds)
Time.now + seconds
end
Interval[t(1),t(5)] ^ Interval[t(3),t(7)] # -> Interval[t(3),t(5)]
Interval[t(1),t(2)] | Interval[t(3),t(4)] # -> Interval[[t(1),t(2)],[t(3),t(4)]]By requiring borel/math_extensions you are provided with some natural
math-related interval methods:
require 'borel/math_extensions'
Interval[1,5].rand # -> Random.new.rand 1..5
Interval[1,5].width # -> 5-1, only for simple intervalsIt's supported only for Numeric, Comparable and arithmetic supported
classes
The following engines and versions are continuosly tested:
- MRI 1.9.3
- MRI 2.0.0
- Latest jRuby Stable
- Latest Rubinius Stable
MRI 1.8.7 has limited supported with some patches
- There is no distinction between open and closed intervals
complementandminusoperations, and also Math Extensions have limited support for non numeric-comparable classes
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