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Re: Re: st: RE: Splitting numeric values


From   n j cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: Re: st: RE: Splitting numeric values
Date   Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:04:54 +0100

Note that Maarten was right and I was havering on this
point. A string variable is needed for your purposes.
A -double- will not suffice. Sorry about that.

Nick
[email protected]

Maarten buis

--- On Jul 23, 2007, at 8:32 PM, Susan Olivia wrote:
> > I think the culprit is due to having the id as numeric variable
> > that comes with 18 digits and stored as double as suggested by
> > Profs Buis and Cox.

As I said before, you can store only 16 digits in a double variable, so
the last two digits of the variable id are now random noice and do not
correspond to the variable id in your original dataset.

--- "Michael S. Hanson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Assuming your original data are in Excel, I suspect you'd be in much
> better shape overall if you read the "id" variable in as a string
> from the start.

This is actually the only way to store all 18 digits of your id
variable.

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