On 17/09/2019 6:02 p.m., Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen wrote:
Hi,
I don't understand why R computes this wrong.
This is pretty well documented. R uses double precision floating point
values for these expressions, which have about 15 digit precision. I
believe for whole numbers Python uses variable size integer values, so
should get integer calculations exactly right.
You can also tell R to use exact 32 bit integer calculations, but your
values are too big for that, so it wouldn't work in this example.
I know I can use gmp and
R will do it correctly.
$ echo '569936821221962380720^3 + (-569936821113563493509)^3 +
(-472715493453327032)^3' | Rscript - [1] -4.373553e+46
Correct answer is 3 and Python can do it:
$ echo
'pow(569936821221962380720,3)+pow(-569936821113563493509,3)+pow(-472715493453327032,3)'|python3
3
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also pretty well documented.
Duncan Murdoch
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