Data precision in Stata - precision

This is the trivial problem and I just wanted to know what is happening here.
Following is my sample data for which I am trying to find the row max in stata
x1 x2 x2
70001102 70001102 70001102
70001102 70001102 70001102
Now, I used the following code to find the row max:
egen maxi rmax(x1 x2 x3)
However, on the data sheet I find the rmax for first and second rows to be 70001104 which is obviously not true.

Try egen double maxi = rmax(x1 x2 x3), or egen double maxi = rowmax(x1 x2 x3). A long would also work in this case.
Here are the limits for the various storage types:
type minimum maximum
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byte -127 100
int -32,767 32,740
long -2,147,483,647 2,147,483,620
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float -16,777,216 16,777,216
double -9,007,199,254,740,992 9,007,199,254,740,992
You can learn more about precision on the Stata blog
Also, the second x2 in the data should be an x3 up there.

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A logic circuit is given two 2-bit binary numbers A and Bas its inputs. The circuit consists of two outputs Y1 and Y2

A logic circuit is given two 2-bit binary numbers A and Bas its inputs. The circuit consists of two outputs Y1 and Y2. The output values of Y1 and Y2 are obtained as follows:
If A<B, then Y1 and Y2 will be equal to A-B. Else Y1 and Y2 will be equal to A.
How To Determinate truth table for this
There are two inputs A[0:1] and B[0:1], 4 inputs in total. Your truth table will have 16 inputs(rows).Are Y1 and Y2 2-bit outputs and is it magnitude of A-B? If yes, The left two columns can be A and next two will be B. For 6 of these rows from 16 cases, A<B in 6 cases ([A,B] = {[0,1],[0,2],[0,3],[1,2],[1,3],[2,3]}). these six rows will have Y1 = Y2 = [B-A]. All other rows will have Y1 = Y1 = A input. Seems straightforward, but I may be missing something here.

resolve a system of linked equations with different modulo

Is there any algorithm to solve a system of equations expressed in different modulo spaces?
For exemple, consider this system of equations:
(x1 + x2 ) % 2 = 0
( x2 + x3) % 2 = 0
(x1 + x2 + x3) % 3 = 2
One of the solutions of this system is:
x1 = 0
x2 = 2
x3 = 0
How could I arithmetically find this solution (without using a brute force algorithm)?
Thanks
You can rewrite these equations as
x1 + x2 = 2*n1
x2 + x3 = 2*n2
x1 + x2 + x3 = 3*n3 + 2
Now, this is a linear Diophantine equation problem for which there are solutions in the literature.
Example: http://www.wikihow.com/Solve-a-Linear-Diophantine-Equation
Also see: https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~wgilbert/Research/GilbertPathria.pdf
Algorithm:
Write xi as a function of nks
In this case:
x3 = 3*n3 + 2 - 2*n1
x2 = 2*n2 - (3*n3 + 2 - 2*n1)
x1 = 2*n1 - (2*n2 - (3*n3 + 2 - 2*n1))
Since there is no division on the right-hand side, pick any (n1, n2, n3) and you should get a solution.
First line is same as saying x1, x2 is all even or all odd numbers.
Second line is same as saying x2, x3 is all even or all odd numbers.
Hence x1,x2,x3 is all even or all odd numbers.
From third line we can replace the question to "3 odd or 3 even numbers that accumulate to 3k+2."
You can convert your system to modulo LCM (least common multiple). Just find the LCM of all equation's modulo, and multiply each equation appropriately.

How to optimize using Genetic Algorithm to get integer values?

Say I have 3 parameters x1, x2 and x3, where x1, x2 and x3 can all take integer values between 0 to 9. I use GA to minimize an objective function f(x1,x2,x3), but the values of x1, x2 and x3 obtained should be integers. Any R-based implementation of GA with such a function to obtain integer values instead of the usual real values would be helpful.

Merging two very large lists

Given a list of size 2n -1 elements and the list looks like this:
x1, x2, x3, ....., xn, y1, y2, y3, ....y(n-1)
Convert it to:
x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3, ........., y(n-1), xn
I can use two iterators for each of the lists and get the solution in O(n) time complexity and O(n) space complexity. But if my n was very large, is there a way to do this in lesser space complexity?
It feels like this can be done with O(1) space and O(n) time but the algorithm is far from trivial. Basically take an element that is out of place, say x2, look where it needs to be in the final arrangement take out the element that is there (i.e. x3) and put in x2.
Now look where x3 needs to go and so on.
When the cycle is closed, take the next element that is out of place (if there is any).
Lets do an example:
x1 x2 x3 y1 y2 x2 is out of place so take it into temp storage
x1 -- x3 y1 y2 temp: x2 needs to go where x3 currently is
x1 -- x2 y1 y2 temp: x3 needs to go where y2 currently is
x1 -- x2 y1 x3 temp: y2 needs to go where y1 currently is
x1 -- x2 y2 x3 temp: y1 needs to go into the empty slot
x1 y1 x2 y2 x3 all elements in place -> finished
If the array indices start at 0, the final position of the element at k is given by
2k if k < n
2(k-n) + 1 if k >= n
The difficulty is to find out an element of a cycle that is not yet handled. For example if n = 4 there are 3 cycles:
0 -> 0
1 -> 2 -> 4 -> 1
3 -> 6 -> 5 -> 3
I do not have an easy solution for that at the moment.
If you have one bit of storage available per array element it is trivial but then we are back to O(n) storage.
In Python:
lst = 'x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 y1 y2 y3 y4 y5'.split()
lst
Out[9]: ['x1', 'x2', 'x3', 'x4', 'x5', 'y1', 'y2', 'y3', 'y4', 'y5']
out = sum((list(xy) for xy in zip(lst[:len(lst)//2], lst[len(lst)//2:])), [])
out
Out[11]: ['x1', 'y1', 'x2', 'y2', 'x3', 'y3', 'x4', 'y4', 'x5', 'y5']

Using min/max *within* an Integer Linear Program

I'm trying to set up a linear program in which the objective function adds extra weight to the max out of the decision variables multiplied by their respective coefficients.
With this in mind, is there a way to use min or max operators within the objective function of a linear program?
Example:
Minimize
(c1 * x1) + (c2 * x2) + (c3 * x3) + (c4 * max(c1*x1, c2*x2, c3*x3))
subject to
#some arbitrary integer constraints:
x1 >= ...
x1 + 2*x2 <= ...
x3 >= ...
x1 + x3 == ...
Note that (c4 * max(c1*x1, c2*x2, c3*x3)) is the "extra weight" term that I'm concerned about. We let c4 denote the "extra weight" coefficient. Also, note that x1, x2, and x3 are integers in this particular example.
I think the above might be outside the scope of what linear programming offers. However, perhaps there's a way to hack/reformat this into a valid linear program?
If this problem is completely out of the scope of linear programming, perhaps someone can recommend an optimization paradigm that is more suitable to this type of problem? (Anything that allows me to avoid manually enumerating and checking all possible solutions would be helpful.)
Add in an auxiliary variable, say x4, with constraints:
x4 >= c1*x1
x4 >= c2*x2
x4 >= c3*x3
Objective += c4*x4

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