Re: [R] Quadruple precision in R

2004-06-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Ravi Varadhan wrote: Is it possible to perform computations in quadruple precision (more generally, with more digits in the floating-point arithmetic than that allowed by double precision) in R? You are making the assumption that R uses double precision. Whereas R uses

[R] Quadruple precision in R

2004-06-14 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Hi: Is it possible to perform computations in quadruple precision (more generally, with more digits in the floating-point arithmetic than that allowed by double precision) in R? thanks, Ravi. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __