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by Jacobot 3015 days ago
The README in the github JS port has 9000 lines of documentation and code samples (R and JS side by side) to prove the output is the same for all functions.

R is fudging numbers? I dont think so, neither does JS or excel btw.

R shows limited precision to a human, you can control this with options('digits'=22) Example

> options(digits=22)

> 1/1.2

[1] 0.83333333333333337

> options(digits=4)

> 1/1.2

[1] 0.8333
1 comments
RobertRoberts 3015 days ago
>R is fudging numbers?

I said javascript fudges numbers, not R.

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Jacobot 3007 days ago
Javascript fudges numbers??? I don't see how making stuff up is helpfull.

The README contains over 8900 lines of 200+ well documented standalone examples with many many code samples comparing JS and R side by side for every function call.

THE RESULTS ARE EXACTLY THE SAME!!

You took the effort to throw dirt at JS, but could you not have glossed over the "proof" first?

You seem to not know that IEEE floating is a standard, I suggest you read up on that first

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