Duncan Murdoch wrote:
For most floating point operations R uses "double precision", which gives about 18-19 significant digit precision. Leading zeros don't count.
Oops, Jan Kim is right: double precision is only 15-16 digit precision. Sorry.
Duncan Murdoch
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