Interval difference

interval_difference · version 1.0.0 · Numbers & math · free, no key needed

Compute the portion of interval a outside interval b.

Use when you need to: interval difference.

Supported

• interval difference

Not supported

• filesystem access
• network access

Behavior

• Deterministic pure computation over the supplied JSON input.
• How requests are recorded is described in the privacy policy: https://computefirst.net/privacy.

Input

• a (object, required)
• b (object, required)

Output

• object

Limits

• max input bytes: 262144

Example

Request input:

{
  "a": {
    "start": 1,
    "end": 10
  },
  "b": {
    "start": 4,
    "end": 6
  }
}

Response:

{
  "result": {
    "difference": [
      {
        "start": 1,
        "end": 4
      },
      {
        "start": 6,
        "end": 10
      }
    ]
  }
}

How to call it

MCP

Connect https://computefirst.net/mcp (setup), then call execute with:

{
  "id": "interval_difference",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "input": {
    "a": {
      "start": 1,
      "end": 10
    },
    "b": {
      "start": 4,
      "end": 6
    }
  }
}

HTTP (no key)

curl -X POST https://computefirst.net/v1/tools/interval_difference/versions/1.0.0/execute \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"a":{"start":1,"end":10},"b":{"start":4,"end":6}}'

The machine-readable contract is at /v1/tools/interval_difference/versions/1.0.0.

CLI

node cli.mjs run interval_difference 1.0.0 --input input.json --base-url https://computefirst.net

Get the client at /clients/cli/.

Related tools

• Decimal subtract: Exact decimal subtraction a minus b of canonicalizable decimal strings.
• Interval contains: Test whether a numeric interval contains a point or interval.
• Interval intersection: Compute the closed intersection of two numeric intervals.
• Interval overlap: Test whether two numeric intervals overlap.
• Interval union: Merge overlapping or adjacent numeric intervals.
• Rational subtract: Subtract one rational number from another, given as numerator/denominator integer strings, and return the reduced difference.