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st: doubt on the output format %w.dg


From   Grace Jessie <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: doubt on the output format %w.dg
Date   Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:45:43 +0000

Dear statalists,
I can not understand the variables' output format %w.dg.
How does Stata  leave up to the format the number of digits to be displayed to the right of the decimal point if d equals 0 and not more than d digits will be displayed if d!=0.
For example,
What does "12.0g" mean?
Why "di %12.0g  5231371222.139" or "di %12.1g  5231371222.139" equals "5231371222", not "5231371222.1"? (the width of "5231371222" is 10, not 12.)
Why "di %12.0g  0.0000029394" equals "2.93940e-06", not "2.9394e-06"?
Thank you for any help.
Grace 		 	   		  
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