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Re: st: In search of the lost precision
From
Gary Longton <[email protected]>
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Re: st: In search of the lost precision
Date
Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:39:15 -0700
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The precision is likely not lost, just hidden. I suspect the problem is
with with the display format (%10.0g) and not the storage precision, as
doubles should have 16 digits of accuracy.
see -help format-, and try:
.format <varname> %17.0g
or
.format <varname> %17.15f
- GL
On 6/30/2011 12:04 PM, Farshad Pourmalek wrote:
Is there a way to insheet 0.154143995764484 without losing precision?
I used Stata IC 9.1 for Windows as below
insheet using "C:\data\0.154143995764484.csv", clear
codebook
* It is float, %9.0g, .15414399, not .154143995764484
insheet using "C:\data\0.154143995764484.csv",clear double
codebook
* It is double, %10.0g, .1541439957645, not .154143995764484
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