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::::Yep. I found this: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2010-January/226016.html, which leads me to believe that R is using its full, floating point, for arithmetic and you are only limiting the digits in the output - not even calculating in decimal arithmatic. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 18:48, 12 December 2014 (UTC) |
::::Yep. I found this: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2010-January/226016.html, which leads me to believe that R is using its full, floating point, for arithmetic and you are only limiting the digits in the output - not even calculating in decimal arithmatic. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 18:48, 12 December 2014 (UTC) |
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::::Just found this R info: https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~stat782/downloads/04-Numerics.pdf. according to that, R is floating point and the FP task section should be followed. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 18:56, 12 December 2014 (UTC) |