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Re: st: re: programming error with -generate-


From   Richard Williams <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: re: programming error with -generate-
Date   Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:43:16 -0500

At 07:25 PM 3/8/2010, Kit Baum wrote:
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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."

Thanks Kit. But does anybody actually write code like that??? Other than maybe some really geeky computer programmers?


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