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With a risk to bore everybody even more, a comment on Lionel's recent post ...
Lionel Issen wrote:
> ....
> According to Guy's painstaking checks, Metastock cannot do single precision
> calculations reliably...
It's hard for me to agree. What Guy's checks show is that Metastock produce
different results (don't laugh, I don't play semantics here<g>!). The source of the
difference might be:
i) a (stupid) error in coding . Then all that anger is valid;
ii) different algorithms for rounding off. Accumulated being able to spoil a calculation.
Considering the second possibility, identical results provided by Excel, Clipper, and
others do not testify to their accuracy, only that they might use the same round-off
routines. Nothing more! Why Equis is so lonely vs. Excel, Clipper, and others? Still
a good question, I agree. It would be nice to have an answer to it to make sure
Metastock users could sleep tight, and Equis could sell even more Metastocks <g>.
Cheers, Vitaly
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