"McGehee, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, but from ?"%%": > "It is guaranteed that 'x == (x %% y) + y * (x %/% y)' (up to rounding > error) ..." > > (R 2.1.0) > > x <- 1 > > y <- 0.2 > > x %% y > [1] 0.2 > > (x %% y) + y * (x %/% y) > [1] 1.2 > > Certainly 1 does not equal 1.2 as the documentation would suggest, and > these seem like large enough numbers to not be effected by rounding > errors or lack of precision.
Now that looks a bit odd, but it isn't universal: > x <- 1 > y <- 0.2 > x %% y [1] 0.2 > x %/% y [1] 4 > (x %% y) + y * (x %/% y) [1] 1 So what platform was that happening on? -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
