## Copyright 2014 Oliver Heimlich
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @documentencoding UTF-8
## @deftypemethod {@@infsup} {@var{S} =} intervaltoexact (@var{X})
##
## Build an exact representation of the interval @var{X} in
## hexadecimal-significand form.
##
## The interval boundaries are stored in binary floating point format and can
## be converted to hexadecimal format without precision loss.
##
## The equation @code{@var{X} == exacttointerval (intervaltoexact (@var{X}))}
## holds for all intervals @var{X}.
##
## Accuracy: The output is exact.
## @seealso{exacttointerval}
## @end deftypemethod

## Author: Oliver Heimlich
## Keywords: interval
## Created: 2014-10-01

function s = intervaltoexact (x)

  if (nargin ~= 1)
    print_usage ();
    return
  endif

  s = intervaltotext (x, "exact hexadecimal");

endfunction

%!assert (intervaltoexact (infsup (1 + eps)), "[0x1.0000000000001p+0]");
