[R] Funky calculations

[stephen sefick]

I have not looked into this, but maybe this is related to floating point
rounding?
Kindest regards,

Stephen Sefick, PhD

On Tue, Feb 1, 2022, 11:28 Nathan Boeger <nboeger using gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I found something strange and maybe I am going nuts but this does not make
> sense:
>
> >  (0.4 + 0.2 + 0 + 0.3 + 0 + 0.1) > 1
> [1] TRUE
>
> I tried it on my mac M1 (R v4.1.2) and my Linux box (R v4.0.4). If I use
> other values, it does not work (see below). It seems only that combination,
> granted I did not try them all.
>
> >  (0.4 + 0.2 + 0 + 0.2 + 0 + 0.2) > 1
> [1] FALSE
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Cheers
>
> -nb
>
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