Dear list, perhpas this question is more suitable for R-dev but since I am not really a developer I post it here first.
Apparently the following lines do not create any problem in R: library(combinat) r <- 20; b <- 2; sum( sapply(0:r,function(x) nCm(r,x)^(2*b)) ) > 2^64 while in C I obtain an overflow of data even using unsigned long long and with long double I incurr in precision problems. Where can I find information about how R (or the combinat package) handles very large integer numbers? Thank you for consideration, Marco ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
