On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, JustinNabble wrote:

Likewise, identical( (4.1 * 100 ) %/% 1 , 409 ) returns TRUE on my computer,
so the result is off by exactly 1, too larger to be explained by floating
point error.

The result of (4.1 * 100 ) %/% 1 is an integer, so if it doesn't agree exactly 
it has to be off by at least 1, no matter how high the numerical precision.

   -thomas


Thomas Lumley                   Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlum...@u.washington.edu        University of Washington, Seattle

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