Julio Sergio <juliosergio <at> gmail.com> writes: > > I'm trying to produce a series of powers of a number as follows: > > |> 0.05^0:5 I'm sorry for the question. The answer is simple: the result is due to operator precedence not to coercing: |> 0.05^(0:5) [1] 1.000e+00 5.000e-02 2.500e-03 1.250e-04 6.250e-06 3.125e-07