Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:07:18 -0700
Reply-To: Kenneth Moody <KennethMoody@FIRSTHEALTH.COM>
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From: Kenneth Moody <KennethMoody@FIRSTHEALTH.COM>
Subject: Re: problem with comparing digits
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Thanks for the suggestion. Using the more appropriate values for An and
Bn on both of the DEC systems yields Tf=1;
For OpenVMS:
NOTE: SAS (r) Proprietary Software Release 8.2 (TS2M0)
NOTE: This session is executing on the OpenVMS 7.2 platform.
NOTE: Running on ALPHASERVER Model 8200 5/440 Serial Number 80000000.
An=224.132 An=406C04395810624E Ar=406C04395810624E
Bn=224.132 Bn=406C04395810624D Br=406C04395810624E
Tf=1
And for Tru64 Unix:
NOTE: SAS (r) Proprietary Software Release 8.2 (TS2M0)
NOTE: This session is executing on the OSF1 V5.1 platform.
An=224.132 An=406C04395810624E Ar=406C04395810624E
Bn=224.132 Bn=406C04395810624D Br=406C04395810624E
Tf=1
Ken Moody
First Health, Metrics Department
Voice: 916-374-3924
EMail: KennethMoody@firsthealth.com
>>> "William W. Viergever" <wwvierg@ATTGLOBAL.NET> 01/04/02 06:08PM
>>>
Hi Ken:
Try my HEX values; the one's you & Ya & Paul are/were using, are from
the
mainframe .... mine & those in Paul's original post, had been the PC's
HEX
values.
Remember, in Floridian/Ukranian parlance, Mainframe = Big Brother ...
or, as Winston might reflect:
"War is Peace"
"Freedom is Slavery"
"Ignorance is Strength"
Out
At 03:29 PM 1/4/2002 -0700, Kenneth Moody wrote:
>For what it's worth, here are a couple of instances from DEC (er,
>Compaq) operating systems.
>Note that these both show An and Bn with the same value as Ya found.
>
> NOTE: This session is executing on the OpenVMS 7.2 platform.
> NOTE: Running on ALPHASERVER Model 8200 5/440 Serial Number
80000000.
>
> 1 Data _Null_ ;
> 2 A = '42E021CAC083126E' ;
> 3 An = Input(A, Hex16.) ;
> 4 Ar = Round(An, .001) ;
> 5 Put An= An=Hex16. Ar=Hex16.;
> 6 B = '42E021CAC083126D' ;
> 7 Bn = Input(B, Hex16.) ;
> 8 Br = Round(Bn, .001) ;
> 9 Put Bn= Bn=Hex16. Br=Hex16.;
> 10 Tf = Ar Eq Br;
> 11 Put Tf=;
> 12 Run;
>
> An=1.4189857E14 An=42E021CAC083126E Ar=42E021CAC083126E
> Bn=1.4189857E14 Bn=42E021CAC083126D Br=42E021CAC083126D
> Tf=0
>
>And on Tru64 Unix
>NOTE: This session is executing on the OSF1 V5.1 platform.
>
>1 Data _Null_ ;
>2 A = '42E021CAC083126E' ;
>3 An = Input(A, Hex16.) ;
>4 Ar = Round(An, .001) ;
>5 Put An= An=Hex16. Ar=Hex16.;
>6 B = '42E021CAC083126D' ;
>7 Bn = Input(B, Hex16.) ;
>8 Br = Round(Bn, .001) ;
>9 Put Bn= Bn=Hex16. Br=Hex16.;
>10 Tf = Ar Eq Br;
>11 Put Tf=;
>12 Run;
>
>An=1.4189857E14 An=42E021CAC083126E Ar=42E021CAC083126E
>Bn=1.4189857E14 Bn=42E021CAC083126D Br=42E021CAC083126D
>Tf=0
>
>Ken Moody
>First Health, Metrics Department
>Voice: 916-374-3924
>EMail: KennethMoody@firsthealth.com
>
> >>> "Dorfman, Paul" <Paul.Dorfman@BCBSFL.COM> 01/04/02 01:11PM >>>
>WWV,
>
>Looks like no independent tester, either Windex- or Unixoid has been
>able to
>replicate the result so far... You would not expect V8.1 under the
>contol of
>the Big Brother ... er ... Iron to disbehave like the obscure NT on
my
>obscure desktop, yet He shows:
>
>9 Data _Null_ ;
>10 A = '42E021CAC083126E' ;
>11 An = Input(A, Hex16.) ;
>12 Ar = Round(An, .001) ;
>13 Put An= An=Hex16. Ar=Hex16.;
>14 B = '42E021CAC083126D' ;
>15 Bn = Input(B, Hex16.) ;
>16 Br = Round(Bn, .001) ;
>17 Put Bn= Bn=Hex16. Br=Hex16.;
>18 Tf = Ar Eq Br;
>19 Put Tf=;
>20 Run;
>
>An=224.132 An=42E021CAC083126E AR=42E021CAC083126E
>Bn=224.132 Bn=42E021CAC083126D Br=42E021CAC083126D
>Tf=0
>
>Huh?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>From: William W. Viergever [mailto:wwvierg@ATTGLOBAL.NET]
>Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 3:00 PM
>To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: Re: problem with comparing digits
>
>
>
>At 11:05 AM 1/4/2002 -0800, seeliger wrote:
>
>
>On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Dorfman, Paul wrote:
>
> > An=224.132 An=406C04395810624E Ar=406C04395810624E
> > Bn=224.132 Bn=406C04395810624D Br=406C04395810624D
> > TrueFalse=0
> >
> > This was run under Windows NT, SAS version 8.1. I also ran a
similar
>code
> > under S/390 (of course, the hexa for 224.132 were different), and
>the
>result
> > was the same.
> >
> > [But under Win XP the results are]
> >
> > An=224.132 An=406C04395810624E Ar=406C04395810624E
> > Bn=224.132 Bn=406C04395810624D Br=406C04395810624E
> > TrueFalse=0
>
>Which is odd; under 8.2 on Linux on an AMD Athlon (on a friday), the
>results are
>
>an=224.132 an=406C04395810624E ar=406C04395810624E
>bn=224.132 bn=406C04395810624D br=406C04395810624E
>true=1
>
>So it may not be a CPU issue as an implementation issue in SAS; it's
>difficult to say without knowing the specific CPUs being used. On my
>box
>at least, the final comparison seems to work as expected.
>
>I'll take this opportunity to come out of the closet -- I'm a dual
>booter,
>running RedHat and NT. It might be interesting to dust off the NT
>side
>(it's been several months since I've had to reboot, much less run NT)
>and
>rerun this test there to control for the CPU.
>
>
>
>Save your time; under W2K Pro, I too find TrueFalse = 1:
>
>
>
>NOTE: SAS (r) Proprietary Software Release 8.2 (TS2M0)
>NOTE: This session is executing on the WIN_PRO platform.
>
>1 Data _Null_ ;
>2 A = '406C04395810624E' ;
>3 An = Input(A, Hex16.) ;
>4 Ar = Round(An, .001) ;
>5 Put An= An=Hex16. Ar=Hex16.;
>6 B = '406C04395810624D' ;
>7 Bn = Input(B, Hex16.) ;
>8 Br = Round(Bn, .001) ;
>9 Put Bn= Bn=Hex16. Br=Hex16.;
>10 TrueFalse = Ar Eq Br;
>11 Put TrueFalse=;
>12 Run;
>
>An=224.132 An=406C04395810624E Ar=406C04395810624E
>Bn=224.132 Bn=406C04395810624D Br=406C04395810624E
>TrueFalse=1
>
>
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