[R] Division ?

[Gavin Simpson]

On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 10:34 -0700, bogdanno wrote:
> It seems division with numbers bigger than 10 000 000 doesn't work
>  20000000/21
> [1] 952381
> > 55555555/23
> [1] 2415459
> 
> Thank you

You are confusing the 'printed' representation of the resulting object
with the object itself:

> print(20000000/21, digits = 20)
[1] 952380.9523809524

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