On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 6:48 PM, R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weyla...@gmail.com> wrote: > To be curt, "it's complicated," but it basically comes down to the > fact that 1/3 is not expressible by a finite sequence of powers of 2 > so it can't be perfectly represented in binary.
But of course, that in turn leads to gems like this, sum(2^(-2*seq(1,30))) == (1/3) M ______________________________________________ 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.
