From khansen at stat.berkeley.edu  Mon Jun 22 19:11:09 2009
From: khansen at stat.berkeley.edu (Kasper Daniel Hansen)
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:11:09 -0700
Subject: [Rd] Floating point precision / guard digits? (PR#13771)
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On Jun 20, 2009, at 6:45 , Dr. D. P. Kreil wrote:

> I am sorry if I am not from the field and although I have had some
> basic background in numerics that has been more than a decade ago. If
> you can suggest an online resource to help me use the right vocabulary
> and better understand the fundamental concepts, I am of course
> grateful.

Read the R FAQ 7.31. There is a reference there to a document you  
should read.

Kasper



[Rd] Floating point precision / guard digits? (PR#13771)
Kasper Daniel Hansen