[Rd] Dangerous Bug with IF function of R

Robert Lowe ral64 at cam.ac.uk
Tue Apr 19 11:02:31 CEST 2011


> 
> I'm intrigued. After such a blatantly wrong claim about a bug in
> R...  what exactly are you claiming about Matlab here?
> That it implements (software) decimal arithmetic on top of the
> cpu-internal binary arithmetic ?   probably rather not ...
> 

Just for confirmation the same thing doesn't work in MATLAB as one would expect.

i=0;
for j=1:11
i=i+0.1;
if i==1
i
end
end



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