[R] [Rd] R 4.5.0 scheduled for April 11

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Re: [R] Number changed weirdly when converting to numeric

Both atof() and strtod() give the correct result on my M1 MacBook. So it looks to me like a bug in R_strtod5(), possibly something that requires extended 80-bit precision to get the conversion right. Doesn't seem to be the fault of the ARM chip, so I'd say it warrants a bug report. Perhaps we

Re: [R] Number changed weirdly when converting to numeric

> J C Nash > on Sun, 9 Mar 2025 14:19:00 -0400 writes: > This may be way off the mark, but is it possible that the ARM machine is using > the "new" IEEE-754 arithmetic that does not have 80 bit extended? The standard > was changed (in ways to allow non-compliant systems