Friday, July 13, 2012

Finding number of decimals in data

I was asked for some GAMS code that produces the number of decimals provided in a table column. One should realize that a number like 0.1 is not exactly representable in binary, so we need to apply a certain tolerance. Here is what I came up with:

sets
   i
/i1*i4/
   j
/j1*j4/
;

table data(i,j)

    
j1  j2     j3   j4

i1    1  0.1  0.01  100.0001
i2    2   2   0.01   0.01
i3    3   3   0.01   0.01
i4    4   4   0.01   0.01
;
*
* find number of decimals
*
parameter numdec(j) 'number of decimals';
numdec(j)=0;


loop
((i,j),
 
while
(abs(round(data(i,j),numdec(j))-data(i,j))>1.0e-15,
    numdec(j) = numdec(j) + 1;
  )
);

option
data:5;
option
numdec:0;
display data, numdec;

This produces:

----     27 PARAMETER data 

            j1          j2          j3          j4

i1     1.00000     0.10000     0.01000   100.00010
i2     2.00000     2.00000     0.01000     0.01000
i3     3.00000     3.00000     0.01000     0.01000
i4     4.00000     4.00000     0.01000     0.01000


----     27 PARAMETER numdec  number of decimals

j2 1,    j3 2,    j4 4

The first column has integers so the number of decimals is zero for that column.

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