rpois hangs (PR#530)
On 30 Apr 2000, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
On Intel, that consistently gives
rpois(1, 1000000 * rpois(1, 10000))
[1] -2147483648 I.e. signs of integer overflow.
Aha!
Apparently you partly get away with it on a 64 bit machine, but I'm not surprised you get into regimes that are not well tested by the poor developers working on hardware from the bygone millennium....
:-) Whaddayamean "bygone", you're speaking to an astronomer here, you know... :-) Anyway, if I can put my hardware to use, I'd be happy to do so, just give me some detailed instructions. Best, Kjetil
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