There are quite a few ways to increment and decrement numeric variables in bash. This post examines the many ways you can do this. When preparing scripts that will run in bash, it’s often critical to ...

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.) In the SAS System under Windows, ...

1If not explicitly defined, a variable's type and length are implicitly defined by its first occurrence in a DATA step. 2The minimum length is 2 bytes in some operating environments, 3 in others. See ...