on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 03:13:19PM -0700, Nick Paszty (paszty@XOMA.COM) wrote: > hello. > > i extracted a 6.12 unix data set from an xpt file onto our vms system > using 6.12. when i run proc compare between our source data and the > extracted data, i get very small differences like 8.184e-16. i would > like to use an alternative method to exact and it seems that 3 exist, > absolute, relative and percent. these methods will yield no unequal > values in my proc compare output. for floating point discrepancies, > is one of these methods better than the others? > > i am also outputing the differences to an out= data set. i have read > up on the kinds of values that dump out to the data set. > E= equal value numeric > .=equal value character

You've investicated the CRITERION= option?

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