I came across this: shouldn't the last value be a more exact zero? It did not do that with 1 - sum( rep(0.1, 10) )
> 1 - cumsum( rep(0.1, 10) ) [1] 9.000000e-01 8.000000e-01 7.000000e-01 6.000000e-01 5.000000e-01 4.000000e-01 3.000000e-01 2.000000e-01 [9] 1.000000e-01 1.110223e-16 > version _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major 2 minor 7.1 year 2008 month 06 day 23 svn rev 45970 language R version.string R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23) best, Mai Z ______________________________________________ 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.