Date:         Mon, 13 May 1996 09:34:50 PDT
Reply-To:     TWB2%Rates%FAR@GO50.COMP.PGE.COM
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         TWB2%Rates%FAR@GO50.COMP.PGE.COM
Subject:      Re: sas help needed
Comments: To: zhang02@ASSETS.WHARTON.UPENN.EDU

Often it means that you have multiplied two numbers which are each more than
half the maximum size supported on your platform.  The largest value on MVS is
roughly 7*10**16.  Thus if you multiple 7*10**15 by 100, there is no way for
SAS to store the result.
 
Tim Berryhill - Contract Programmer and General Wizard
TWB2@PGE.COM or http://www.lookup.com/Homepages/92062/home.html
Frequently at Pacific Gas & Electric Co., San Francisco
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my postings is slightly less than 0
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Sent by:Dan Zhang <zhang02@ASSETS.WHARTON.UPENN.EDU>
 What does "Floating Point Overflow" mean?  I got this message from the
SAS-Log file and my SAS program stopped at this point. How can I avoid
this problem?
 
Thanks for the help.
 
Dan Zhang
 
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