Third one this afternoon, see FAQ 7.31
Mai Zhou wrote:> I came across this: shouldn't the last value be a more exact zero?
> It did not do that with 1 - sum( rep(0.1, 10) )
>
>
>> 1 - cumsum( rep(0.1, 10) )
> [1] 9.000000e-01 8.000000e-01 7.000000e-01 6.000000e-01 5.000000e-01
> 4.000000e-01 3.000000e-01 2.000000e-01
> [9] 1.000000e-01 1.110223e-16
>> version
> _
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch i386
> os mingw32
> system i386, mingw32
> status
> major 2
> minor 7.1
> year 2008
> month 06
> day 23
> svn rev 45970
> language R
> version.string R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
>
>
>
>
> best,
>
>
> Mai Z
>
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