st: re: padding zeroes, writing functions

[Joseph Coveney <jcoveney@bigplanet.com>]

Kit Baum wrote:

Joe said:

5. Anything else that you need returned in double-precision.  Now, if
a user
takes the time to assure precision by bounding the error in a numerical
integration, for example, the integral still gets returned from Mata to
Stata in a single-precision return scalar.

This is patently untrue. There is no such thing in Stata as a single-
precision scalar.

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Thanks for pointing that out, Kit.  I stand corrected, and am not sure where 
I got the mistaken notion.

Joseph Coveney

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