One benefit of programs like matlab and mathematica is that not only do they bring together many different functions with a common syntax, but that they (presumably) have standardized precision and accuracy control. So coming up with a standard in this area is important. I think such a standard could even be used by developers of algorithms who have nothing to do with sage as at least a guideline so they know if their function is "sage compatible" or not. The standard doesn't have to be a single hard limit, but whatever the experts come up with. It could be as little as required documentation to as much as explicit benchmarks or classifications. Maybe functions that implement the standard could be a special type, so if you use only those functions there is some type of guarantee about the overall calculation that can be made.. Just some random thoughts here.
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