Date:         Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:19:36 GMT
Reply-To:     kenneth_m_lin@SBCGLOBAL.NET
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From:         kenneth_m_lin@SBCGLOBAL.NET
Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com
Subject:      Re: Very Basic Q- Lenghts of a numeric variable
Comments: To: sas-l@uga.edu

8 means 8 bytes not decimal points.

"Raj" <ramesh.chakri@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1161206918.680395.178190@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> data test;
> id = 999999999999999;
> run;
>
> After running this example, the length of the variable in sas shows as
> 8. Value in the table as 1E15
>
> Whats is going on?
>
> I read that sas numeric variable length is 8 .. does it mean it can not
> store a numeric variable of a 10+million value ??
>
> -Raj.
>