On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 00:02:47 +0200 Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen <traxpla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I know I can use gmp and R will do it correctly. Which is equivalent to what Python does: it uses so-called long arithmetic, allowing scalar variables with as many digits as it fits in the computer memory. R by default uses floating-point arithmetic, which is subject to problems described in [*]. -- Best regards, Ivan [*] https://www.itu.dk/~sestoft/bachelor/IEEE754_article.pdf or https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html ______________________________________________ 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.
