[R] W-E-I-R-D Weird!

[Bert Gunter]

Ow ow ow. I can't stand it any longer! "Weird" is one of those weird
exceptions in English to the "i before e except after c" rule and is spelled
"W-E-I-R-D" .

In case you're interested, the other exceptions are seize, inveigle ,
either, leisure, neither.

:-(   -- Bert Gunter

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On
Behalf Of Thomas Lumley
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 2:29 PM
To: poolloopus at yahoo.com
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] WIERD: Basic computing in R


This is FAQ 7.33

 	-thomas

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, poolloopus at yahoo.com wrote:

> Can someone please enlighten me as to why the following happens?
>> -2.7^8.6
> [1] -5125.407
>
>> p<- -2.7
>> q<- 8.6
>> p^q
> [1] NaN
> R seems perfectly able to calculate -2.7^8.6, but fails when the exact
same values are assigned to variables and then the computation is repeated.
> Thanks in advance for any suggetsions.
> Kris.
>
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Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle

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