st: How to display 10 digits data in data panel

[mzhang@nd.edu]

for example:

set obs 1
gen vindex=2158
gen number=5746340000+2158

by stata default, not all the digits of "number" show up in the data panel.
therefore i use the syntax

format number %13.0g

to display all the digits. however, the result comes out weird. it is 5746342400
instead of 5746342158. why??????

Thanks


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