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RE: st: A bug in egen and gen?
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David Kantor <[email protected]>
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RE: st: A bug in egen and gen?
Date
Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:06:16 -0500
At 11:30 AM 2/18/2011, Junlin wrote:
David,
The -doubletofloat- procedure is a nice addition to -compress-. It
essentially makes up for what should be included in the -compress-
procedure. People concerning with dataset size should be getting
this one. Thanks.
[...]
Glad to know it is useful. But I imagine it is rare that a bunch of
double values (when they needed to be double) could recast to float
without loss of precision. As Nick indicated, a value such as 4.1 is
different in float vs. double.
--David
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