The formal S4 class for Brobdingnagian numbers
Objects can be created by calls of the form new("brob", ...) but this is not encouraged. Use functions brob() and, especially, as.brob() instead.
new("brob", ...)
brob()
as.brob()
x
Object of class "numeric" holding the log of the absolute value of the number to be represented
"numeric"
positive
Object of class "logical" indicating whether the number is positive (see Note, below)
"logical"
Class "swift", directly.
"swift"
glub-class,swift-class
glub-class
swift-class
# NOT RUN { new("brob",x=5,positive=TRUE) # not intended for the user as.brob(5) # Standard user-oriented idiom # }
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