This is related to this FAQ:
http://stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-doesn_0027t-R-think-these-numbers-are-equal_003f
What you can do is create the sequence of integers from 6155 to 6200
rather than using floats and then divide by 100 in your subsequent
calculation. Until the point you
Another thing to notice (rather than, it would seem, assume), is that
using round() doesn't do any "better":
### without rounding
> print(seq(61.55, 61.59, by=.01) , digits=22)
[1] 61.547 61.555 61.570 61.578
[5] 61.586
### with roundi
> The seq-command produces unnescessary inaccurate results, which can be
> extremely
> annoying. I absolutely do not see the nescessity of numerical garbage
> to appear in the following simple case. E.g. try this:
> > seq ( 61.55 , 62.00 , by=0.01 ) - round ( seq ( 61.55 , 62.00 , by=0.01 ) ,
>
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> The seq-command produces unnescessary inaccurate results, which can be
> extremely
> annoying. I absolutely do not see th
