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[Bendix Carstensen]

When you require 2 digits you expect to find 5.96 printed
as 6.0, i.e. a number somewhere between 5.95 and 6.04999999999999.
This is apparently not always the case for R.
Why does 0 have a special status as trailing digit?

> options(digits=2)
> x <- c(59.6,59.4)
> x
[1] 60 59
> x/10
[1] 6.0 5.9
> x[1]/10
[1] 6
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