From Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>  Thu May 22 15:45:50 1997
From: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> (Martin Maechler)
Date: Thu, 22 May 97 16:45:50 +0200
Subject: R-alpha: Re:  Re(1i) = 2.4976e-307
In-Reply-To: <9705221441.AA01396@> (message from Martin Maechler on Thu, 22
 May 97 16:41:16 +0200)
Message-ID: <9705221445.AA01404@>

It is really not 'Re',
but the parser for complex constants which is at fault:

> 1i - complex(imag=1)
[1] 2.497599e-307+0i
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R-alpha: Re: Re(1i) = 2.4976e-307
Martin Maechler