Comment by vishal_ch

The division example is a perfect illustration of why this matters — [-∞, +∞] as an answer is technically correct but operationally useless. The union representation actually preserves information that standard interval arithmetic throws away. Curious about the composition behavior: if you chain multiple operations that each produce disjoint unions, does the number of intervals in the result grow exponentially in the worst case? And how does the implementation handle that — is there a merging/simplification step, or do you let it grow? The tan() implementation must have been painful given the infinite number of discontinuities.