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RE: st: RE: ml and variable types: Scalar vs. Local precision?


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: RE: ml and variable types: Scalar vs. Local precision?
Date   Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:35:06 -0000

The answer is Yes, and this is prominently documented. 

Although it is unlikely to be the source of the problem, 
it will do no harm to cast anything you care about as 
a scalar not a local. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Rachel
 
> Another issue is that some constants inside the
> evaluator are defined as scalars and others as locals.  Do locals
> (when evaluated with single quotes) have a lower precision than
> scalars?

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