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st: Re: Generate puzzle


From   "Michael Blasnik" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Re: Generate puzzle
Date   Sat, 28 Jan 2006 14:54:07 -0500

This comes up on Statalist about once per week. It is an issue of precision. If you want x to contain more than 7.5 digits of precision, then generate a double or long, not a float (gen double x=...). see http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/prec.html

Michael Blasnik
[email protected]

----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrzej Niemierko" <[email protected]>
To: "Stata" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 2:34 PM
Subject: st: Generate puzzle



Could someone please explain to me the following strange behaviour? When I
generate a new variable:
gen x=3366161 and then:
gen x2=10*x1
the number that I get for x2 is 33661608 (not the correct number 33661610).
When the initial x1 number is 3366162 the x2 is correct, that is 33661620.
Any help?
Andrzej
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