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Re: st: Bug?
Hi Le
This is a precision issue (not a bug). See the FAQ:
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/float.html
If you use the following codes you will get the expected results.
Cheers,
David
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. di ceil(float((0.05-0.04)/0.01))
1
. di ceil(float((0.04-0.03)/0.01))
1
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On 10/21/08, Le Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks in advance for your time.
>
> I am trying to use -- ceil() -- to do the following calculations that
> are supposed to give identical results, but the results turn out to be
> different. I couldn't figure out the solution to this problem.
>
> Le
>
> The codes
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> . di ceil((0.05-0.04)/0.01)
> 2
>
> . di ceil((0.04-0.03)/0.01)
> 2
>
>
> . di (0.04-0.03)/0.01
> 1
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Le Wang, Ph.D
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Economics
> University of New Hampshire
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