Re: st: missing values in mata

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

Interesting. A little experimentation shows that:

: .^(1/(2^41))
  1

so we finally know that "missing" is really just a very
large power of 1....

Jeph


William Gould, Stata wrote:
> Misha <bontchos@email.unc.edu> wrote, 
>
> > If you try:
> > mata : .^(1/2) you will get 9.4808e+153, not .  A bug ?
> Yes; one we did not know about.  We will fix it in the next 
> executable update.
>
> -- Bill
> wgould@stata.com
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