Arith: Methods for Function Arith in package Brobdingnag

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Methods for Function Arith in package Brobdingnag

Description

Methods for Arithmetic functions in package Brobdingnag: +, -, *, /, ^

Note

The unary arithmetic functions (viz “+” and “-”) do no coercion.

The binary arithmetic functions coerce numeric <op> brob to brob; and numeric <op> glub, complex <op> brob, and brob <op> glub, to glub.

Author(s)

Robin K. S. Hankin

Examples

x <- as.brob(1:10)
y <- 1e10

x+y

as.numeric((x+y)-1e10)

x^(1/y)

Brobdingnag documentation built on Oct. 19, 2022, 5:14 p.m.