On 02 Sep 2014, at 14:21 , Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> I suspect PD knows (or has known) why, but for the sake of those who are not 
> much bitten by ix86 compilers ....
> 
> It's the curse of extended-precision arithmetic (and not enough registers).  
> It does
....

Let's say that he suspected something of the sort.

-- 
Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
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