Here's a tip for the original poster.
> ?numeric
and then follow the link it suggests
> ?double
which says amongst other things
All R platforms are required to work with values conforming to the
IEC 60559 (also known as IEEE 754) standard. This basically works
with a precision of 53 bits, and represents to that precision a
range of absolute values from about 2e-308 to 2e+308.
and reminds us that
> .Machine
will give you the parameters of the 'double' type.
On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 12:03, Abby Spurdle <spurdl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > R by default uses floating-point arithmetic, which
> > is subject to problems described in [*].
>
> Yes.
>
> I want to note that both graphics and modern statistics, require
> efficient floating point arithmetic.
> So, R does what it's designed to do...
>
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