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| Formats under UNIX |
RBw.d Format: UNIX
Writes real binary (floating-point) data in real binary format.
| Category: | Numeric |
| Width range: | 2 to 8 |
| Default width: | 4 |
| Decimal Range: | 0-10 |
| Alignment: | left |
| UNIX specifics: | floating-point representation |
| See: | RBw.d format in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary |
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The RBw.d format writes numeric data in real binary (floating-point) notation. SAS stores all numeric values in floating-point.
Real binary is the most efficient format for representing numeric values because SAS already represents numbers this way and no conversion is needed.
For more information, see RBw.d Informat: UNIX and Reading and Writing Binary Data in UNIX Environments.
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