Thanks.
By the way, when I did the -browse-, I noticed that even if the data
is correctly displayed in the "spreadsheet", it isn't so in the box
located in the upper side of the screen (under the HIDE button). In
the second case, I only see 348080.2688552. Kinda funny as the box
usually shows full precision even if the numbers are formatted as
%2.0f in the spreadsheet.
Sergio
On 11/11/05, Michael Blasnik <[email protected]> wrote:
> You have forgotten to format the values properly, so you think you lost
> precision when you didn't. All of the digits in your example are maintained
> when you use doubles or destring. Try your code, but then :
>
> di %20.10f c
> 348080.2688552010
>
> Michael Blasnik
> [email protected]
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sergio Correia" <[email protected]>
> <snip>
> > However, as the following example can show, this is not enough to
> > maintain ALL the precision.
> >
> > 1) make the data
> > input str20 x
> > 348080.2688552010
> > end
> >
> > 2)
> > gen a=real(x)
> > gen double b=real(x)
> > destring x, gen(c)
> > browse
> >
> > 3) Alternative (a) is pretty bad.
> > (b) and (c) give 3.4808026885520e+05, which is pretty close.
> >
> > If that is not enough, I can't help.
> <snip>
>
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