On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:55:32 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : >Does anyone know >where I can find specifications for R's type double?
As far as I know, all platforms use the IEEE-754 standard double precision numbers. Google will give you a description; here's one: http://research.microsoft.com/~hollasch/cgindex/coding/ieeefloat.html This isn't relevant to your question, but I found the history of the development of the standard interesting: http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/754story.html Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
