Dear R community,

I sent a question to the list a few days ago.  Using nlm, I was unable to detect a 
gradient in a four-parameter function that I had written in the region that I was 
searching, even though the function surface clearly varied in the fourth significant 
figure there.

I stumbled across a peculiar solution: the nlm function was able to detect a non-zero 
gradient when the ndigit value was *reduced*.  The default value is 12, I was able to 
detect a gradient in one of the four dimensions if I used 10, and in all of the four 
if I used 8.

Does that make any sense to anyone?

Thanks,

Andrew

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