Re: st: RE: RE: RE: AW: Decimal Precision with Destring

[Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>]

--- On Mon, 19/4/10, Sutton, Bennett W. wrote:
> I know these are insanely small hairs to be splitting, but
> unfortunately this work is going into a publication and I
> need to make sure that the rounded result will be 4.5 and
> not 4.6.  (not just here but in many, many other 
> calculations.)

If reproducability across programs is your aim, then your
best bet is probably to multiply your variables with some
multiple of 10 such that the largest value of each variable
has 9 digits after the decimal point, round the variables,
and than store these  variables as -long-s (with the 
factors). Computers have much less trouble representing 
integers, so this way you are more likely to get the same 
results across computer programs.

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
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Germany

http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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