On 5/7/2009 12:56 PM, Paul Emberson wrote:
Hi,
If R is compiled for a 64 bit platform, does the double data type make
use of the additional precision or is it set at a fixed length?
It is still a 64 bit floating point value. R may use "long double"
internally for some calculations, but the numeric type that is saved
doesn't change.
Duncan Murdoch
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