RBw.d Format: UNIX

Writes real binary (floating-point) data in real binary format.
Category: Numeric
Alignment: left
Default: 4
Ranges: 2 to 8, 0–10
UNIX specifics: floating-point representation
See: RBw.d Format in SAS Formats and Informats: Reference
Details

Details

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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