All is good [Software]

posted by Helmut Homepage – Vienna, Austria, 2020-12-11 01:36 (1204 d 15:11 ago) – Posting: # 22137
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Hi Ohlbe,

❝ … the same happens in [image]:


So you installed this goody at last? :-D

0==(0.5-0.4-0.1)

[1] FALSE

0==(-0.4-0.1+0.5)

[1] TRUE


❝ Are they first calculating -0.4-0.1=-0.5, which is nicely binarily coded, then -0.5+0.5=0 ?


Would have to dive into the lexer of the source of base-[image]. Likely not clever enough anyway. If you want to explore the matter, type ?Syntax, ?Arithmetic, ?Comparison, and their relatives. See also the (in)famous FAQ 7.31. However, the `==` operator should not be used to compare two objects for identity. Otherwise we fall into the binary trap:

x1 <- (0.5-0.4-0.1)
x2 <- (-0.4-0.1+0.5)
x1; x2
[1] -2.775558e-17
[1] 0

x1 == x2
[1] FALSE
identical(x1, x2)
[1] FALSE
all.equal(x1, x2)
[1] TRUE

Only the last function compares to the numeric precision of the machine* and this is what we want and the best we can hope for…



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