Hi,

A part of the answer is:

> format(sin(pi), scientific=FALSE, digits=20)

and also

R FAQ 7.31

On my machine,
> sin(pi)
[1] 1.224647e-16


Regards,
Pascal



2013/9/26 Babak Bastan <babak...@gmail.com>

> Hi experts,
>
> If I test sin(pi) in r, it returns me 1.224606e-16
>
> Why doesn't return me 0?
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