This got revived by a long-standing bug in Mail.app on Mac: If you sort mails newest-last, it may unpredictably scroll back, often by several years. If you happen to have a large mailbox with some old unread mails in it, say from a mailing list, and don't pay attention to the date....
-pd > On 25 Jul 2017, at 07:25 , Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: > > What an impressively zombified thread. Though wondering how 53 bits were > supposed to fit into 32 might just warrant revivification. > -- > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > On July 20, 2017 5:33:34 AM PDT, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 10 Jan 2013, at 15:56 , S Ellison <s.elli...@lgcgroup.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> I am working with large numbers and identified that R looses >>>> precision for such high numbers. >>> Yes. R uses standard 32-bit double precision. >> >> >> Well, for large values of 32... such as 64. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
