st: Re: statalist-digest V4 #1037

[baum <baum@bc.edu>]

--On Monday, October 14, 2002 2:33 -0400 Bill wrote:

> Kit is right about the "very bad idea" with respect to -float-, but not
> with respect to -double-.  The problem arises at 16 digits, not 15.
Bill is of course correct; sorry for the misinformation. The general point, 
though--relying on floating-point datatypes to store very long strings is 
probably not such a good idea (since if there was one digit more, as 
demonstrated...) when there is a very complete set of string functions 
available in Stata.

Kit
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