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ArchanaSudhir
Obsidian | Level 7

Hi,

 

What is the actual value of 1.534386E-17?

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Reeza
Super User

FYI - this is scientific notation so it translates to 

1.534x10^-17

 

https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/scientific-notation.html

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Reeza
Super User

FYI - this is scientific notation so it translates to 

1.534x10^-17

 

https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/scientific-notation.html

ArchanaSudhir
Obsidian | Level 7

Thanks, that helps! 🙂

Kurt_Bremser
Super User

Although @Reeza's post is rather terse, he is probably spot-on to the problem. Numbers in that range are often encountered when the internal representation of numbers in SAS (8-byte real) causes problems stemming from the decimal-to-binary conversion (ie 0.1 cannot be correctly stored as a binary number).

In such cases, apply the round() function to get rid of inaccuracies happening far to the right of the decimal point.

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