On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:28 AM, jim holtman<jholt...@gmail.com> wrote: > First of all, read FAQ 7.31 to understand that 1/3 is not > representable in floating point. Also a^b is actually exp(log(a) * b) > and log(-8) is not valid (NaN). >
If this is so, why would the following evaluate as expected? > (-8)^(3) [1] -512 Liviu ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.
