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authorROUVREAU Vincent <vincent.rouvreau@inria.fr>2020-06-05 18:07:25 +0200
committerROUVREAU Vincent <vincent.rouvreau@inria.fr>2020-06-05 18:07:25 +0200
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Code review: no link to CGAL::Lazy_exact_nt and no guarantee on fast precision
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* Using the default :code:`complexity = 'safe'` makes the construction safe.
If you pass :code:`complexity = 'exact'` to :func:`~gudhi.AlphaComplex.__init__`, the filtration values are the exact
ones converted to float. This can be very slow.
- If you pass :code:`complexity = 'safe'` (the default) or :code:`complexity = 'fast'`, the filtration values are only
- guaranteed to have a small multiplicative error compared to the exact value, see
- `CGAL::Lazy_exact_nt<NT>::set_relative_precision_of_to_double <https://doc.cgal.org/latest/Number_types/classCGAL_1_1Lazy__exact__nt.html>`_
- for details. A drawback, when computing persistence, is that an empty exact interval [10^12,10^12] may become a
+ If you pass :code:`complexity = 'safe'` (the default), the filtration values are only
+ guaranteed to have a small multiplicative error compared to the exact value.
+ A drawback, when computing persistence, is that an empty exact interval [10^12,10^12] may become a
non-empty approximate interval [10^12,10^12+10^6].
Using :code:`complexity = 'fast'` makes the computations slightly faster, and the combinatorics are still exact, but
the computation of filtration values can exceptionally be arbitrarily bad. In all cases, we still guarantee that the