Thank you very much, Duncan! Now it is totally clear for me. Reading the 'R inferno' tract suggested to me in private by a user (nut one can google it), and wondering about heaven and hell....
Best regards, Z On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca>wrote: I'm glad you are happy with your solution. Just one inline comment below, expanding on my private reply to you: No, that's not how standard floating point representations work. 12.34 is represented as a finite precision binary number between 1 and 2 (starting out as 1.10001 in binary notation) multiplied by 2^3. The problem is that there is no way to represent it exactly in this format. Only fractions with a power of 2 in the denominator can be represented that way, and 12.34 is not one of those. It's 1234/100, and 100 is not a power of 2. Duncan Murdoch [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.