Re: [Rd] Question about quantile fuzz and GPL license

2021-09-15 Thread GILLIBERT, Andre
Martin Maechler wrote: > OTOH, type=7 is the default, and I guess used in 99.9% of > all uses of quantile, *and* does never use any fuzz Indeed. This also implies that this default should be well-thought when creating a new implementation of the quantile() procedure for a new programming l

Re: [Rd] Question about quantile fuzz and GPL license

2021-09-15 Thread Martin Maechler
> GILLIBERT, Andre > on Tue, 14 Sep 2021 16:13:05 + writes: > On 9/14/21 9:22 AM, Abel AOUN wrote: >> However I don't get why epsilon is multiplied by 4 instead of simply using epsilon. >> Is there someone who can explain this 4 ? > .Machine$double.eps is the "pr