Could someone please explain the following behavior? I'm running fully
up to date Stata 8.2 on Windows 2000.
In a program I have the following statements (with responses
interspersed):
. local x = -4
. display `x'
-4
. local xsq=`x'^2
. disp `xsq'
-16
I kind of expected xsq to have the value of 16 rather than -16.
Thanks in advance.
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Dale Plummer
Department of Biostatistics
Vanderbilt School of Medicine
S-2323 Medical Center North
Nashville, Tennessee 37232-2158
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