From Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>  Tue Apr 15 23:10:26 1997
From: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> (Martin Maechler)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 97 00:10:26 +0200
Subject: R-alpha: R0.50 Pre7 :  Bug in .Internal(print.default(.)...)
Message-ID: <9704152210.AA01600@>

> options()$digi
[1] 7
> (0:2)/1000 + 1e-10
[1]1e-3131e-3131e-313

-->  Hugh ?!?!  (it is NOT in computation just in printing !) :

> options(digits=8)
> 0:2/1000 + 1e-10
[1] 1.0000000e-10 1.0000001e-03 2.0000001e-03
> options(digits=5)
> 0:2/1000 + 1e-10
[1]1e-3131e-3131e-313
> 
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R-alpha: R0.50 Pre7 : Bug in .Internal(print.default(.)...)
Martin Maechler