Date:         Wed, 3 Sep 2008 23:24:44 GMT
Reply-To:     Lou <lpogoda@VERIZON.NET>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Lou <lpogoda@VERIZON.NET>
Subject:      Re: ROUND function question
Comments: To: sas-l@uga.edu

<jlee8071@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:442030ed-5437-4734-be59-a056ad1bcf75@w39g2000prb.googlegroups.com...
<<snip>>
>thank for the inputs.  This is not only a trailing zero, but a
>significant figure. 0.060 and 0.06 are not the same because we don't
>know it was really 0.064 that is rounded down to 0.06 or 0.060.  SAS
>shouldn't automatically remove the last decimal if it is '0'

Theoretically, there are an infinite number of trailing zeroes - how many do
you want SAS to keep, and how do you propose to tell it what you want?