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Re: st: more than double precision (higher than 16 digit)
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David Kantor <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: more than double precision (higher than 16 digit)
Date
Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:41:08 -0500
At 07:27 PM 11/28/2010, Nicola wrote:
Hi,
I am having problems with precision for a numeric variable (it is an
ID variable). I have been keeping it as a string variable as there
are more than 16 digits (the maximum number of exact digits stored
in double precision, which problem I also encountered in other
softwares like Excel and SPSS).
However, I now want to do some computation with a user-written
program in STATA that needs it to be stored as a number. Would be
great if someone would help me with this.
Thanks!
Nicola
You may need to tell us more about the computation that you want to do.
But one possibility is to take the right 8 digits as one number and
the remaining digits as another number.
HTH
--David
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