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st: re: padding zeroes, writing functions


From   Joseph Coveney <[email protected]>
To   Statalist <[email protected]>
Subject   st: re: padding zeroes, writing functions
Date   Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:49:05 +0900

Kit Baum wrote:

Joe said:

5. Anything else that you need returned in double-precision. Now, if
a user
takes the time to assure precision by bounding the error in a numerical
integration, for example, the integral still gets returned from Mata to
Stata in a single-precision return scalar.

This is patently untrue. There is no such thing in Stata as a single-
precision scalar.

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Thanks for pointing that out, Kit. I stand corrected, and am not sure where I got the mistaken notion.

Joseph Coveney

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