How many numbers after the decimal point can you show using R?

Question

I was wondering how far can you print this:

http://www.iheartchaos.com/post/16393143676/fun-with-math-dividing-one-by-998001-yields-a

In R.

e.g: 1/998001

Answer 1

You could use the mpc package,

# 3000 is the precision in bits
> mpc(1, 3000) / mpc(998001, 3000)
[1] "(1.0020030040050060070080 ...
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