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  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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  style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> 
  <A title=j.ledermann@xxxxxxxxx href="mailto:j.ledermann@xxxxxxxxx";>Jeff 
  Ledermann</A> </DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  href="mailto:metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx";>metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx</A> </DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 11, 2000 8:17 
  AM</DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Significant digits - PD 
  Manager</DIV>
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  <P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>Ken,<BR><BR>I realise that everyone is sick 
  to death of this&nbsp;topic but&nbsp;<SPAN class=561062912-11092000>there is 
  something very peculiar going on here which I think warrants further 
  explanation.&nbsp; This is what the 7.02 downloader says my data is for 
  today</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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  <P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=561062912-11092000>yet when I 
  display the chart MS seems to have lost the plot.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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  <P><SPAN class=561062912-11092000></SPAN><FONT face=Arial size=2>N<SPAN 
  class=561062912-11092000>ow my experience is that the Downloader will 
  unfailingly display what I downloaded (like duh!) so what gives?&nbsp; My 
  theory is that the Downloader is "correctly" rounding to 4 decimal places 
  while MS is displaying an unrounded 5 decimal places.</SPAN></FONT></P>
  <P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=561062912-11092000><FONT face=Arial 
  size=2>Perhaps a future version could have a Window Option - number of decimal 
  places to display?&nbsp; I tend to agree with your point that input to formula 
  should not be fiddled with, but almost no-one wants to see 5 decimal places 
  for anything that I know of. As an interesting aside, historically US stocks 
  have not suffered from this problem (fractions are stored differently I 
  believe).&nbsp; This could become a significant issue as you go 
  decimal.</FONT></P>
  <P><FONT face=Arial 
size=2>Cheers<BR>Jeff</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>

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