topic Re: Having issue with representation of decimal in SAS Programming https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Having-issue-with-representation-of-decimal/m-p/131210#M26750 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>only best12. will work, automatically SAS will show the numbers in Exponentially when it exceeds more than 12 digits.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 May 2013 06:59:26 GMT Sudhakar_A 2013-05-07T06:59:26Z Having issue with representation of decimal https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Having-issue-with-representation-of-decimal/m-p/131209#M26749 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><STRONG>Hi,</STRONG></P><P></P><P><STRONG>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I have an issue with representation of decimal values. </STRONG></P><P></P><P><STRONG>For eg.</STRONG></P><P></P><P><STRONG>&nbsp;&nbsp; 12.1234567890123456789</STRONG></P><P></P><P><STRONG>i defined it with an informat 30.20 and format 30.20, but the output is truncated as SAS stores only a maximum of 8 bytes i.e. 16 places.</STRONG></P><P></P><P><STRONG>Which format should i define to have the precision without truncation. This precision is mandatory in my case for calcualtions and reporting. Losing the precision would be an issue.</STRONG></P><P></P><P><STRONG>Please help!</STRONG></P><P></P><P><STRONG>I tried best32. too. It did not work.</STRONG></P><P></P><P><STRONG>Thank you</STRONG></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 May 2013 06:33:12 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Having-issue-with-representation-of-decimal/m-p/131209#M26749 khchaitanya 2013-05-07T06:33:12Z Re: Having issue with representation of decimal https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Having-issue-with-representation-of-decimal/m-p/131210#M26750 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>only best12. will work, automatically SAS will show the numbers in Exponentially when it exceeds more than 12 digits.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 May 2013 06:59:26 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Having-issue-with-representation-of-decimal/m-p/131210#M26750 Sudhakar_A 2013-05-07T06:59:26Z Re: Having issue with representation of decimal https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Having-issue-with-representation-of-decimal/m-p/131211#M26751 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>SAS handles up to 15 digits of significance in numeric variables.</P><P></P><P>Here are documentation links you may find useful:</P><P><A href="http://support.sas.com/techsup/technote/ts654.pdf">http://support.sas.com/techsup/technote/ts654.pdf</A> <BR /><A href="http://support.sas.com/techsup/technote/ts230.html">http://support.sas.com/techsup/technote/ts230.html</A> </P><P></P><P>Jan</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 May 2013 21:10:22 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Having-issue-with-representation-of-decimal/m-p/131211#M26751 jwsquillace 2013-05-07T21:10:22Z