topic Re: Floating point overflow in procedures in SAS Procedures

Floating point overflow in procedures

deleted_user — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:13:14 GMT

When I ran PROC CORR and PROC PRINCOMP I got error messages of "floating point over flow". How can I diagnose which variables caused the problem? How can I fix the problem?

Thanks a lot.

Re: Floating point overflow in procedures

sbb — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:25:29 GMT

Recommend searching the SAS support http://support.sas.com/ website - here is a Google advanced search argument to consider using - there will be several matches for technical notes on the problem/condition:

floating point overflow site:sas.com

Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.

Re: Floating point overflow in procedures

deleted_user — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:38:43 GMT

Thanks for the response. But I'm still bummed about how to resolve the issue. Some suggest redefining variable lenghth but it would be nice if I can just identify which variables caused the problem.

Can I get any help from somebody?

Re: Floating point overflow in procedures

deleted_user — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:31:46 GMT

I tried to add the variables one by one to the procedure and found the variable causing the problem. Fixed for now!