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when I define a numeric variable (or attrib) in a dataset,and try to insert a value greater than 2500k, it starts having the round off error, SAS does not complian the overflow (no warning or error) but just insert it with round off error.
I am trying to understand how sas stores the numeric value with different length and how to calculate the safe data range for a specified length? which doc?

I checked in the help and find that I can add a check constraint. I wonder how much overhead it is when adding this type of constrain to a table? Would it be more efficient by checking the cloumn in the code before inserting the data into the dataset ?

Any suggestion would be high appreciated.
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