Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > print(x,17) > [1] 0.26600000000000001 0.25100000000000000 ... > > print(x,17) > [1] 0.266 > > I don't know why the second print() prints 0.266 differently from the > first one. (This is in the 1.9.0 beta in Windows).
To get the same number of decimals as the other guy. The interesting question is why 0.251 gets all those trailing zeros: > print(0.251,17) [1] 0.25100000000000000 > print(0.253,17) [1] 0.25300000000000000 > print(0.255,17) [1] 0.255 -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
