Having issue with representation of decimal

[khchaitanya]

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

[Sudhakar_A]

only best12. will work, automatically SAS will show the numbers in Exponentially when it exceeds more than 12 digits.

[jwsquillace]

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