Hi,
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:26 PM, JustinNabble <justinmmcgr...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the response. I read through the Inferno and there's a lot of
> useful stuff in there. However I think you may have missed something.
>
> Having some experience with other languages, I know that floating point
> numbers aren't represented exactly, the issue is that R is off by much more
> than would be expected. On my computer, cell 9,2 of (mat * 100) %% 1 is
> larger than .99 and the correct result is 0. That difference seems too large
> to be a problem with representing floating point numbers.
Like which languages?
python> 4.1 * 100
409.99999999999994
scala> 4.1 * 100
res0: Double = 409.99999999999994
ruby> 4.1 * 100 < 410
=> true
matlab> 4.1 * 100 < 410
ans =
1
-steve
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