A strange arithmetic error in R (maybe a bug)
Hello, Today I happened to notice a strange error in R. If you type (2.01-0.06)==1.95, output from R is ?FALSE?, which is wrong. But if you type (1.01-0.06)==0.95, output is ?TRUE?, which is correct. I tested this in two systems: R 3.3.2 in my iMac and R 3.2.0 on my school?s Linux server. Both gave same outputs. As shown in the following:
2.01-0.06
[1] 1.95
(2.01-0.06)==1.95 # should be TRUE; output is wrong
[1] FALSE
1.01-0.06
[1] 0.95
(1.01-0.06)==0.95 # should be TRUE; output is correct
[1] TRUE
(2.01-0.06)>1.95 # should be FALSE; output is correct
[1] FALSE
(2.01-0.06)<1.95 # should be FALSE; output is wrong
[1] TRUE Similar errors could be found with simple alterations of the above inputs, such as:
5.533-5.412
[1] 0.121
(5.533-5.412)==0.121 # should be TRUE; output is wrong
[1] FALSE
2.533-2.412
[1] 0.121
(2.533-2.412)==0.121 # should be TRUE; output is correct
[1] TRUE Could any of you test whether you have same outputs as mine? And does anyone know what is wrong with these? My guess is that R has a bug in processing double numbers. Thanks! TZ