On 27/01/2012 1:26 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 27/01/2012 12:32 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On 27/01/2012 13:26, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> > On 12-01-27 7:23 AM, Hans W Borchers wrote:
> >> I have a question concerning the new Windows toolchain for R>= 2.14.2.
> >> When trying out my package 'pracma' on the win-builder development
> >> version
> >> it will stop with the following error message:
> >>
> >> > f3<- function(x, y) sqrt((1 - (x^2 + y^2)) * (x^2 + y^2<= 1))
> >> > dblquad(f3, -1, 1, -1, 1) # 2.094395124 , i.e. 2/3*pi , err = 2e-8
> >> Warning in sqrt((1 - (x^2 + y^2)) * (x^2 + y^2<= 1)) : NaNs produced
> >> Warning in sqrt((1 - (x^2 + y^2)) * (x^2 + y^2<= 1)) : NaNs produced
> >> Error in integrate(function(y) f(x, y), ya, yb, subdivisions = subdivs,
:
> >> non-finite function value
> >> Calls: dblquad ...
> >> <Anonymous> -> f -> do.call -> mapply -> <Anonymous> ->
integrate
> >> Execution halted
> >> ** running examples for arch 'x64' ... ERROR
> >> Running examples in 'pracma-Ex.R' failed
> >>
> >> This probably means that the following expression got negative for some
> >> values x, y:
> >>
> >> (1 - (x^2 + y^2)) * (x^2 + y^2<= 1)
> >
> > I think you're right, it's a bug, hopefully easy to fix. Here's a
> > simpler version:
> >
> > x<- 0*(-1)
> > sqrt(x)
> >
> > x is a "negative zero", and the sqrt() function incorrectly produces a
> > NaN in the new toolchain.
>
> Well, for some definition of 'incorrectly'. It is clearly what the
> author of that piece of code intended.
>
> It would be helpful if people would cite definitive references. Someone
> is going to have to report this on the bugtracker, and at present I
> don't have enough evidence to do so: the C99/C11 standards do not seem
> to mandate a particular value (they do say what happens for values less
> than zero, but C compilers are allowed to have or not have signed
> zeroes). (Various Unix-alikes say what they do, usually -0, but that's
> not evidence that other answers are 'incorrect'.)
Section 6.3 of IEEE 754-2008 says
Except that squareRoot(−0) shall be −0, every numeric squareRoot result
shall have a positive sign.
I believe the corresponding ISO standard is ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011, but I
don't have a copy, and I don't think my library does.
Duncan Murdoch
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