new application of intervals

[Vladik Kreinovich]

Dear Friends,

Arnold Neumaier has just attracted our attention to a new exciting
application of intervals: by Thomas C. Hales from the University of
Michigan, who used intervals in his reasearch of 
the Kepler Conjecture (on the densest arrangment of spheres
in space).  

This is work in progress; preliminary results, preprints, and references 
can be found on URL

http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~hales/kepler.html 

The link to this page has been added to the Applications part of the
Interval Computations website 

http://intcomp.home.ml.org (also available as 
http://cs.utep.edu/interval-comp/main.html), 

and the link 
to Dr. Hales's homepage has been added to the Personalia part of the
interval website).

Vladik and Misha

P.S. Happy New year! 

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