[R] R- exp(-1000) ? - how to get R to give me an actual answer ?

[Simon Blomberg]

At 03:42 PM 26/10/2005, you wrote:

>We can double check this with yacas which is a free
>computer algebra system that supports arbitrary
>precision math:
>
>    In> N(Exp(-1000))
>    Out> 0.5075958898e-434

Or in Axiom, which is open source too:

numeric exp(-1000)

  0.50759588975494567653E-434 Type: Float




>On 10/26/05, rramacha <rramacha at utk.edu> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I am a novice user of the R software package. When I try and compute,
> > exp(-1000) or exp(-2000), i get the answer as zero. Is there any way i 
> can get
> > R to compute the answer and give me an actual number ? ( by increasing the
> > precision or any other method).
> >
> > If I cannot get R to give me a number, can anybody give me some advice 
> on how
> > to manually compute this number ?
> >
> > I would greatly appreciate your help on this issue.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ravi
> >
> > Ravichandran "Ravi" Ramachandran
> >
> > Graduate Teaching Assistant
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