More interesting behavior of pbinom:
> pbinom(3,2,.8)
[1] 1
> pbinom(30,2,.8)
[1] 0.9967653
> pbinom(40,2,.8)
[1] -4806.771
> pbinom(10,5,.4)
[1] 1
> pbinom(10,5,1)
[1] 0
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