## Copyright 2014 Oliver Heimlich
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @documentencoding UTF-8
## @defmethod {@@infsup} inf (@var{X})
## @comment DO NOT SYNCHRONIZE DOCUMENTATION STRING
##
## Get the (greatest) lower boundary for all numbers of interval @var{X}.
##
## If @var{X} is empty, @code{inf (@var{X})} is positive infinity.
##
## Accuracy: The result is exact.
##
## @example
## @group
## inf (infsup (2.5, 3.5))
##   @result{} ans = 2.5000
## @end group
## @end example
## @seealso{@@infsup/sup, @@infsup/mid}
## @end defmethod

## Author: Oliver Heimlich
## Keywords: interval
## Created: 2014-09-27

function result = inf (x)

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

  result = x.inf;

endfunction

%!# from the documentation string
%!assert (inf (infsup (2.5, 3.5)), 2.5);

%!shared testdata
%! # Load compiled test data (from src/test/*.itl)
%! testdata = load (file_in_loadpath ("test/itl.mat"));

%!test
%! # Scalar evaluation
%! testcases = testdata.NoSignal.infsup.inf;
%! for testcase = [testcases]'
%!   assert (isequaln (...
%!     inf (testcase.in{1}), ...
%!     testcase.out));
%! endfor

%!test
%! # Vector evaluation
%! testcases = testdata.NoSignal.infsup.inf;
%! in1 = vertcat (vertcat (testcases.in){:, 1});
%! out = vertcat (testcases.out);
%! assert (isequaln (inf (in1), out));

%!test
%! # N-dimensional array evaluation
%! testcases = testdata.NoSignal.infsup.inf;
%! in1 = vertcat (vertcat (testcases.in){:, 1});
%! out = vertcat (testcases.out);
%! # Reshape data
%! i = -1;
%! do
%!   i = i + 1;
%!   testsize = factor (numel (in1) + i);
%! until (numel (testsize) > 2)
%! in1 = reshape ([in1; in1(1:i)], testsize);
%! out = reshape ([out; out(1:i)], testsize);
%! assert (isequaln (inf (in1), out));
