[R] Machine accurancy.

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Kenneth Cabrera <krcabrer at perseus.unalmed.edu.co> writes:

> >Why do you want to do this?  R's precision is quite sufficient for almost
> >all scientific purposes, if used correctly.
> >
> integer.max              2147483647
> 
> 
> I just want to use a bigger integer limit number for specific integer
> process.

Actually, FPUs handle integers up to the mantissa size exactly, at
least on Intel, so you can store integers up to 9007199254740992
(==2^53) just by keeping them in double variables.

You'll have to keep track of overflow and truncation issues yourself
though. 

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