On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:00:09 +0200 Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Would you (or anybody else) know if this is new behaviour or it > also happened e.g. in R 4.4.x versions on Windows? R-4.3.1 on Windows 7 in a virtual machine gives: dput(sqrt(.Machine$double.xmax), control = 'hex') # 0x1p+512 sqrt(.Machine$double.xmax)^2 # [1] Inf ...which differs from R on Linux: dput(.Machine$double.xmax, control = 'hex') # 0x1.fffffffffffffp+1023 dput(sqrt(.Machine$double.xmax), control = 'hex') # 0x1.fffffffffffffp+511 dput(sqrt(.Machine$double.xmax)^2, control = 'hex') # 0x1.ffffffffffffep+1023 -- Best regards, Ivan ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
