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SAS Companion for the OpenVMS Operating Environment

Variable Precision and Storage Information

This section discusses variable precision in the OpenVMS operating environment and how numeric and character variables are stored. Note that the issue of numeric precision affects the return values of almost all SAS math functions and many numeric values returned from SAS procedures.


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