Operator exp showing missing value

[Marie Andersen Badua]

Hi! I am currently learning how to use STATA for my quantitative methods class.

There seems to be a problem with exponentiating through Stata on my end. I tried the following command below but it just results into a dot(.)

di exp(740.8473)
.



What seems to be the problem?

[Nick Cox]

That number is enormous.

Stata will show you numbers up to a documented limit

. di c(maxdouble)
8.99e+307

where e+ indicates that a power of 10 follows (as you probably know, it is nothing to do with e = 2.71828...)

The square root of the number you have is about

. di exp(370.4237)
7.46e+160

so the number you have is about 5 * 10^321 according to my mental arithmetic.

exp() is a function, not an operator.