At 08:37 AM 9/22/2004 -0500, Plummer, Dale wrote:
Could someone please explain the following behavior? I'm running fully
up to date Stata 8.2 on Windows 2000.
In a program I have the following statements (with responses
interspersed):
. local x = -4
. display `x'
-4
. local xsq=`x'^2
. disp `xsq'
-16
I kind of expected xsq to have the value of 16 rather than -16.
Thanks in advance.
There is a FAQ on this. See
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/lang/macpow.html
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