[R] sin(pi)?

Nguyen Dinh Nguyen n.nguyen at garvan.org.au
Mon Sep 3 08:43:06 CEST 2007


Dear all,
I found something strange when calculating sin of pi value
sin(pi)
[1] 1.224606e-16

 pi
[1] 3.141593

 sin(3.141593)
[1] -3.464102e-07

Any help and comment should be appreciated. 
Regards
Nguyen

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Nguyen Dinh Nguyen
Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Sydney, Australia



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