Hello I have some strange output from R and I try to understand how R works.

Could you please help me with that?

temp <- rbind (c(10,1),c(99,98))
> temp
     [,1] [,2]
[1,]   10    1
[2,]   99   98


> dist(temp)
         1
2   131.6435


> sqrt(dist(temp))
         1
2   11.47360

so far so good.

until the nex line: when I try to do what i did before but adding the 1/(what I 
did before). I was expecting a number as a result of the division but 
unfortunately I took the following:

 1/sqrt(dist(temp))
[1] 0.08715662
attr(,"Size")
[1] 2
attr(,"Diag")
[1] FALSE
attr(,"Upper")
[1] FALSE
attr(,"method")
[1] "euclidean"
attr(,"call")
dist(x = temp)
attr(,"class")
[1] "dist"


Could you please help me understand what is this about?

I would like to thank you in advance for your help
Best REgards
Alex



      
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