Yes, you are correct. I had only checked one of my platforms. Linux
works as you suggest. But for me on Windows,=20
> x <- 1
> y <- 0.2
> x %/% y
[1] 5 ## I get a 4 in Linux
version
_ =20
platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch i386 =20
os mingw32 =20
system i386, mingw32 =20
status =20
major 2 =20
minor 1.0 =20
year 2005 =20
month 04 =20
day 18 =20
language R =20
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Dalgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 4:14 PM
To: McGehee, Robert
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Peter Dalgaard; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [Rd] bug in modulus operator %% (PR#7852)
"McGehee, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yes, but from ?"%%":
> "It is guaranteed that 'x =3D=3D (x %% y) + y * (x %/% y)' (up to =
rounding
> error) ..."
>=20
> (R 2.1.0)
> > x <- 1
> > y <- 0.2
> > x %% y
> [1] 0.2
> > (x %% y) + y * (x %/% y)
> [1] 1.2
>=20
> 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?
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