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numeric precision issue with summed field from proc summary?

comp.soft-sys.sas - 23 posts - 12 authors - Last post: Apr 23, 2009

mary mlhow...@avalon.net comp soft-sys sas one lesson is that input with a
decimal specification can sometimes trip up an unsuspecting user; try running
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numeric precision problem

comp.soft-sys.sas - 2 posts - 2 authors - Last post: May 21, 2009

mike zdeb ms...@albany.edu comp soft-sys sas hi ... to make it even more
confusing, why is multiplying by .01 different from dividing by 100 it's
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why would sort affect numeric precision?

comp.soft-sys.sas - 3 posts - 3 authors - Last post: Apr 24, 2009

daniel santos d...@iol.pt comp soft-sys sas actually it seems the proc sort is
not affecting the data. it's the way proc summary is summing numbers. if
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Numeric precision and discontinuity

comp.soft-sys.sas - 1 post - 1 author - Last post: Oct 3, 2008

You're running into OS-specific precision issues, and it appears that 8
bytes of numeric precision is not enough for your calculations. I
proposed a numeric ...
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Numeric Precision

comp.soft-sys.sas - 2 posts - 2 authors - Last post: Jul 16, 2008

Mary mlhow...@avalon.net comp soft-sys sas OpenVMS is the operating system for
the Dec VAX Alpha; its been years = since I programmed in SAS on a VAX
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numeric precision

comp.soft-sys.sas - 13 posts - 9 authors - Last post: Jan 14, 2008

"Marc S." marc.s...@RBC.COM comp soft-sys sas We've all
encountered problems due to the way SAS stores numeric variables. Specifically
a series of ...
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Numeric precision problem

comp.soft-sys.sas - 4 posts - 4 authors - Last post: Sep 23, 1998

Lei Yao lei_...@YAHOO.COM comp soft-sys sas Dear All, I have a SAS data set on
VAX. There's a numeric variable called 'SCHEDULE' with some values
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fwd: numeric precision problem

comp.soft-sys.sas - 2 posts - 2 authors - Last post: May 21, 2009

ian whitlock iw1...@gmail.com comp soft-sys sas summary: consequences of the
essential finiteness of computer arithmetic iw-value=1 eva, your are thinking
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Re[2]: Numeric precision problem

comp.soft-sys.sas - 2 posts - 2 authors - Last post: Sep 24, 1998

COM> wrote: Thanks for all the response to my numeric precision
problem. It works fine while using ROUND function. Another question is: Are
there any general ...
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Length statement and numeric precision

comp.soft-sys.sas - 17 posts - 13 authors - Last post: Mar 8, 2002

Gemignani, Chris Chris_Gemign...@AFCC.COM comp soft-sys sas SAS does not have
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