Hi!
I'm running R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
When i type in the command:
sum(c(-0.2, 0.8, 0.8, -3.2, 1.8))
R returns the value:
-5.551115e-17
Why doesn't R return zero in this case? There shouldn't be any rounding
error in a simple sum.
Thanks,
Mark
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