All,
Apologies for the thread issue, and many thanks for the pointers to the
FAQs.
Thanks,
M
On 04/02/2014 10:14 PM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
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> As for your question, see FAQ 7.31. This is standard floating point numerical
> limitations at work.
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> On April 2, 2014 4:32:26 AM PDT, Michael Smith <my.r.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I'm getting this:
>>
>>> sprintf("%.17f", 0.8)
>> [1] "0.80000000000000004"
>>
>> Where does the `4` at the end come from? Shouldn't it be zero at the
>> end? Maybe I'm missing something.
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
>> Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C
>> LC_TIME=en_US.utf8
>> [4] LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8 LC_MONETARY=en_US.utf8
>> LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
>> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8 LC_NAME=C LC_ADDRESS=C
>>
>> [10] LC_TELEPHONE=C LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8
>> LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> M
>>
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