RE: Strange $TVOLQ Problem

["William Wood" <wrwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bob

This is definitely the answer.  I just edited GS again and I got it to take
2,147,483,008.  That seems to be the limit but it is very close to the
number you provided.

Is there any way around this such as using the ABS function to remove the
sign problem.  This is one of the many times when I wish I had a good math
teacher in high school or college who would have shown my why I needed to
learn much more than I did.

Thanks

Bill Wood

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Scott [mailto:rlscott@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 7:47 AM
To: William Wood; Omega List
Subject: Re: Strange $TVOLQ Problem


Bill,

A 32 bit signed number would be limited to 2,147,483,648 and that appears to
be the case here.

~Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: William Wood <wrwood@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Omega List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, March 23, 2001 6:43 AM
Subject: Strange $TVOLQ Problem


>Maybe somebody knows what the cause of this strange behavior is.
>
>I use Ts2ki with eSignal and want to chart Total Vol on the exchanges.
>$TVOLQ is eSig's symbol for NASDAQ total vol.  Yesterday 3/22/01, NASDAQ
>total vol was 2,508,544,382 according to WSJournal and 2,508,813,056
>according to eSignal.
>
>The problem is Ts2ki charting will not plot that volume number.  Instead it
>plots nothing and produces a very strange negative number in the total
>volume field in Global Server.
>
>I am not a math expert but fooling around I was able to edit GS by trial
and
>error and get it to accept 2,144,967,168 as the Close value for $TVOLQ.
Any
>number bigger than that causes charts to delete the plot for 3/22 and
report
>a funny negative number.  Is there some limit on the size of a number that
>can be charted?  I have had Ts2ki give me strange negative volume numbers
>before but I edited GS and they went away.  This time I cant fix it.
>
>Any suggestions.
>
>Bill Wood
>