[Rd] Inaccurate result for 0. (PR#13538)

[Wacek Kusnierczyk]

Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> Hmmm, the favorite.
>
> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-doesn_0027t-R-think-these-numbers-are-equal_003f
>   
hmm, an interesting quote:

"
To quote from “The Elements of Programming Style” by Kernighan and Plauger:

    /10.0 times 0.1 is hardly ever 1.0/. 

"

so here's one example where 10.0 times 0.1 *is* 1.0:

perl -Mbignum -le 'print (10.0 * 0.1 == 1.0)'
# 1, for true

not an isolated idiosyncrazy, for that matter.

vQ