dear all, I report a problem very simple, that I does non know how to handle.
look at the following code: > a = rep(16.256, 5) > sum(a[1:5]^2) - (sum(a[1:5])^2/5) [1] 2.273737e-13 as you can see i retrieve a non 0 value, when i am expected to. what can I do? > sessionInfo() R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=Italian_Italy.1252;LC_CTYPE=Italian_Italy.1252;LC_MONETARY=Italian_Italy.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Italian_Italy.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] rcompgen_0.1-17 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.