Okay, thanks for your reactions.
I realized it's not something being "broken", just that it's a situation where
my intuition messes things up, and that in this situation it's not as easy as
using all.equal, which is my usual approach when working with floats.
But maybe I underestimated the impact
Duncan, I think Emil realizes that the floating point format isn't
able to represent certain numbers, that's why he is suggesting this
change rather than complaining about our arithmetic being broken.
However, I agree with you that we should not adopt his proposal. It
would not make things more "u
On 11/09/2018 11:23 AM, Emil Bode wrote:
Hi all,
Could we modify the "%%" (modulo)-operator to include some tolerance for
rounding-errors when supplied with doubles?
It's not much work (patch supplied on the bottom), and I don't think it would
break anything, only if you were really interes
Hi all,
Could we modify the "%%" (modulo)-operator to include some tolerance for
rounding-errors when supplied with doubles?
It's not much work (patch supplied on the bottom), and I don't think it would
break anything, only if you were really interested in analysing rounding
differences.
An
