I was just trying to say that Ole might know the technical difference
between "NULL" and "ZERO", but it seemed to be rather a linguistic
confusion...
BTW. the subject contains "null", but the body of the mail correctly states
"zero" :-)


2012/7/12 Patrick Connolly <p_connolly@slingshot.co.nz>

> On Tue, 10-Jul-2012 at 11:19PM +0200, Erdal Karaca wrote:
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> |> german "Null" == english "zero" :-)
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> German "Gift" == English "poison"  :-(
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> |> 2012/7/10 Rolf Turner <rolf.turner@xtra.co.nz>
> |>
> |> >
> |> >
> |> > In addition to taking cognisance of Richard Heiberger's reply you
> |> > should also learn to distinguish between the concept of "null" and
> |> > "zero".  They are not at all the same thing.
> |> >
> |> >     cheers,
> |> >
> |> >         Rolf Turner
> |> >
> |> >
> |> > On 11/07/12 08:17, ollestrat wrote:
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> |> >> Hello,
> |> >>
> |> >> I fear its a stupid question,..but here it is:
> |> >>
> |> >> If I do this simple calculation with the R  console, I surprisingly
> do not
> |> >> get a zero. Why?
> |> >>
> |> >>   -1.1-0.1+1.2
> |> >> [1] -2.220446e-16
> |> >>
> |> >>
> |> >> greetings, Ole
> |> >>
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