Message-ID: <199903101623.RAA06323@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 1999-03-10T16:23:40Z
From: Martin Maechler
Subject: bug? and New bug. (PR#138)
>>>>> "Mai" == Mai Zhou <mai@ms.uky.edu> writes:
Mai> A new bug. In 0.63.0 (windows NT) and 0.63.2 (on the Rweb)
>> pt(1.96,df=100)
Mai> [1] 0.9736105 #this is OK
>> pt(1.96, df=100000000000000000000)
Mai> [1] 0.5 #clearly wrong
Mai> and for df=1000000 it took way too long to compute
Mai> same with the F-distribution function.
Oh dear! this is an ``old one''
(I had at one time fixed something similar, maybe qt() ?
but never done/checked all these limit cases).
--- I look at it some more...
Martin
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