Hi,
If I do the following
sprintf("%A",pi)
"0X1.921FB54442D18"
I have this 16 byte character string
hx<-"400921FB54442D18"
This is the exact hex16 representation of PI in
IEEE float that R uses in Intel 32bit(little endian) Windows
SAS uses the same representation. 11 bit exponent and 53 bit mantissa.
I want to do is recreate the float exactly from the 16 char hex
something like
MyPI<-readChar(hx,numeric(),16)
or in SAS
MyPI=input("400921FB54442D18",hex16.);
put MyPI=;
MYPI=3.1415926536
What I am trying to do is set up a lossless
transfer method from SAS to R
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