[Rd] Inaccurate complex arithmetic of R (Matlab is accurate)
Tom Short
tshort.rlists at gmail.com
Tue Aug 4 16:33:50 CEST 2009
I checked, and both octave and yorick use multiplication for z^i where
i is an integer, leading to better accuracy. Octave uses an integer
power if it's stored as a double if it's close enough to an integer.
See:
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/fb22dd5d6242/src/xpow.cc
http://yorick.sourcearchive.com/documentation/2.1.01cvs20060706/ops2_8c-source.html
- Tom
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