If you use a numeric variable on the left side of an assignment statement and a character variable on the right, the character variable is converted to numeric. In the opposite situation, where the ...

The default length of numeric variables in SAS data sets is 8 bytes. (You can control the length of SAS numeric variables with the LENGTH statement in the DATA step.) The issue of numeric precision ...

Numeric variables will always result in number-based responses, which are represented in scatter or line charts with continuous values. Word variables are sometimes represented by numbers, ...