[R] Strange integer result on Debian/amd64

[Berwin A Turlach]

G'day Dave,

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:59:38 +0000
Dave Ewart <davee at ceu.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> All help/suggestions/appreciated!

The calculations are done in floating point arithmetic, not integer
arithmetic. From the help page on `choose' one might already guess
so much, but reading "R-2.4.1/src/nmath/choose.c" definitely confirms
this fact.

Thus, your problem is covered by FAQ 7.31:

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-doesn_0027t-R-think-these-numbers-are-equal_003f

HTH.

Cheers,

	Berwin