Hi,
I have an issue with representation of decimal values.
For eg.
12.1234567890123456789
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.
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.
Please help!
I tried best32. too. It did not work.
Thank you
only best12. will work, automatically SAS will show the numbers in Exponentially when it exceeds more than 12 digits.
SAS handles up to 15 digits of significance in numeric variables.
Here are documentation links you may find useful:
http://support.sas.com/techsup/technote/ts654.pdf
http://support.sas.com/techsup/technote/ts230.html
Jan
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