From a11a2e2840c4a3b8e84c639b24ae777ea62ae74c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Chirico Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 22:49:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] spell out "significant figures" (#6081) --- man/setNumericRounding.Rd | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/setNumericRounding.Rd b/man/setNumericRounding.Rd index 87ce2256b..f9e00de27 100644 --- a/man/setNumericRounding.Rd +++ b/man/setNumericRounding.Rd @@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ Computers cannot represent some floating point numbers (such as 0.6) precisely, using base 2. This leads to unexpected behaviour when joining or grouping columns of type 'numeric'; i.e. 'double', see example below. In cases where this is undesirable, data.table allows rounding such data up to -approximately 11 s.f. which is plenty of digits for many cases. This is -achieved by rounding the last 2 bytes off the significand. Other possible +approximately 11 significant figures which is plenty of digits for many cases. +This is achieved by rounding the last 2 bytes off the significand. Other possible values are 1 byte rounding, or no rounding (full precision, default). It is bytes rather than bits because it is tied in with the radix sort