Hello!
I understand a little bit about floating point storage; however, could someone explain these results? I can understand a number not being stored exactly due the the precision...
...ormat Best32. 327653072.39 Format E32. 3.2765307239000000000000000E+08
This is a real case. What is the best way to export these values without loss of precision, so that they don't i...
Hi,
First things - Oracle 11g, SAS V9.3/9.4.
I see numerous threads, notes etc. on the numerical precision problems encountered while dealing with extremely large numbers....
Hello,
I want to append into Oracle a record that contains a numeric value from SAS.
The value in SAS is defined as NUMERIC(8) with a format/informat of 19.2. It's an amount field, so it c...
Hi! In my access table, my numeric variable has been entered manually by me and looks like, for example, 34.4. When I import it in SAS, the same variable become 34.400001526. The format is numeric B...
...ssue are well beyond the 16-digit precision offered by SAS.
So what do you think? Expected numericprecision (mis)behaviour or unexpected issue?
I lean towards the second option.
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Hi all SAS experts.
I have some questions about the length of a numeric variable as below:
1. Following this document, "The default length of numeric variables in SAS data sets is 8 b...
I have an integer numeric value xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx4 (16 digits) that needs to have the last digit recoded to a 3. SAS will not do this in a data step - it leaves the original value. However, when I s...
