It surprised me that prod(numeric(0)) is 1.
I guess if you say (operation(nothing) == identity
element) this makes sense, but ??
Looking in the code, this makes sense:
basically (s=1; for i=0 to length(x),
multiply s by x[i]) -- which comes out to 1.
What *should* prod(numeric(0)) produce?
I couldn't find the answer documented anywhere.
(And how about sum(numeric(0))==0,
which for some reason makes more intuitive sense
to me, but is really exactly the same thing --
consider exp(sum(log(numeric(0)))) ... ?)
cheers
Ben Bolker
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