https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Length-of-Numeric-Variables/m-p/567136#M159451 <P>How to give length for a numeric variable&nbsp; like this&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Text1</P> <P>0.25</P> <P>100/25</P> <P>20/100</P> <P>00.09</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><EM><FONT size="1 2 3 4 5 6 7">Edit by KB: expanded insufficient subject line</FONT></EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 19 Jun 2019 05:35:39 GMT Aayushi_17 2019-06-19T05:35:39Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Length-of-Numeric-Variables/m-p/567136#M159451 <P>How to give length for a numeric variable&nbsp; like this&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Text1</P> <P>0.25</P> <P>100/25</P> <P>20/100</P> <P>00.09</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><EM><FONT size="1 2 3 4 5 6 7">Edit by KB: expanded insufficient subject line</FONT></EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 19 Jun 2019 05:35:39 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Length-of-Numeric-Variables/m-p/567136#M159451 Aayushi_17 2019-06-19T05:35:39Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Length-of-Numeric-Variables/m-p/567140#M159453 <P>Numeric variables have a length of 8 by default, and if you work with fractions, you should not change that.</P> <P>See&nbsp;<A href="https://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmsascdc&amp;cdcVersion=9.4_3.3&amp;docsetId=lrcon&amp;docsetTarget=p0ji1unv6thm0dn1gp4t01a1u0g6.htm&amp;locale=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Numerical Accuracy in SAS Software</A></P> Wed, 19 Jun 2019 05:36:03 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Length-of-Numeric-Variables/m-p/567140#M159453 Kurt_Bremser 2019-06-19T05:36:03Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Length-of-Numeric-Variables/m-p/567326#M159532 What do you mean by length here? What are you expecting as a result? Wed, 19 Jun 2019 15:30:22 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Length-of-Numeric-Variables/m-p/567326#M159532 Reeza 2019-06-19T15:30:22Z