Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.05.10004302139190.20697-100000@alnair.uio.no>
Date: 2000-04-30T19:57:59Z
From: Kjetil Kjernsmo
Subject: rpois hangs (PR#530)
In-Reply-To: <x2ya5vcr67.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>
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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