> On 10 Jan 2013, at 15:56 , S Ellison <s.elli...@lgcgroup.com> wrote: > > > >> I am working with large numbers and identified that R looses >> precision for such high numbers. > Yes. R uses standard 32-bit double precision.
Well, for large values of 32... such as 64. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.