On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, chris desimpelaere wrote:
I'm running monte carlo and i wonder what is the biggest/smallest number that can reliably be represented in R?
Well, -Inf and Inf, of course. But if you meant a finite number, see ?.Machine : the values are OS-specific.
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