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st: more than double precision (higher than 16 digit)
From
Nicola Man <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: more than double precision (higher than 16 digit)
Date
Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:27:07 +1100
Hi,
I am having problems with precision for a numeric variable (it is an ID variable). I have been keeping it as a string variable as there are more than 16 digits (the maximum number of exact digits stored in double precision, which problem I also encountered in other softwares like Excel and SPSS).
However, I now want to do some computation with a user-written program in STATA that needs it to be stored as a number. Would be great if someone would help me with this.
Thanks!
Nicola
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