Re: [Rd] sqrt(.Machine$double.xmax)^2 == Inf, but only on Windows in R

On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:00:09 +0200 Martin Maechler wrote: > Would you (or anybody else) know if this is new behaviour or it > also happened e.g. in R 4.4.x versions on Windows? R-4.3.1 on Windows 7 in a virtual machine gives: dput(sqrt(.Machine$double.xmax), control = 'hex') # 0x1p+512 sqrt(.M

Re: [Rd] sqrt(.Machine$double.xmax)^2 == Inf, but only on Windows in R

> Pavel Krivitsky via R-devel > on Mon, 28 Apr 2025 05:13:41 + writes: > Hello, Under R 4.5.0 on Windows (x86-64), I get: >> sqrt(.Machine$double.xmax)^2 > [1] Inf >> sqrt(.Machine$double.xmax)*sqrt(.Machine$double.xmax) > [1] Inf > On other hand on other