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From | Partha Deb <partha.deb@hunter.cuny.edu> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: re: programming error with -generate- |
Date | Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:40:24 -0500 |
That was fun while it lasted. Thanks, Kit, for bringing me back to earth!! cheers. Partha Kit Baum wrote:
<> No error, clearly documented at [U] 12.2, Numbers. Technical note: Stata also allows numbers to be represented in a hexadecimal/binary format, defined as... [+][-]1.{hexdigit}[hexdigits][X|x]{+|-}{hexdigit}[{hexdigits}] "For instance, 1.0X+3 = 2^3 = 8. 1.8X+3 is 12 because 1.8_{16} is 1 + 8/16 = 1.5 in decimal form and the number is thus 1.5 x 2^3 = 1.5 x 8 = 12." Kit Baum | Boston College Economics & DIW Berlin | http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html An Introduction to Stata Programming | http://www.stata-press.com/books/isp.html An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata | http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
-- Partha Deb Professor of Economics Hunter College ph: (212) 772-5435 fax: (212) 772-5398 http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/~deb/ Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery None but ourselves can free our minds. - Bob Marley * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/