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I find that hard to believe.....single precision floats can do better than
that.
I'd like to see an example to prove this claim.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Wright [mailto:lwright@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 10:14 PM
> To: marQ
> Cc: Omega List
> Subject: Re: Warning about accuracy of Array functions in TS2000i
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> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, marQ wrote:
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> > The following email was sent by me to OR tech support and their
> > reply is found below. Anyone using Standard Deviation,
> Variance, Covariance
> > etc. array functions must be extremely careful when using them
> due to the
> > limitations of single-precision in TS2000i. The bottom line is
> they will
> > only work on prices that have no more than 3, maybe 4,
> significant figures
> > in them. i.e. 6.25 which probably limits their use to
> low-priced stocks and
> > some futures.
>
> Some of us have been asking for this for YEARS, to a host of deaf ears who
> cannot see any value on it.
>
> Larry
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