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Re: Brain teasers (are these known TradeStation bugs?)



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On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, CRE wrote:

> I've had a number of manifestations (infestations??) of this error message.
> For example, a pair of EL statement such as
>     x=4;
>     y=high/x;
> might give a floating point error, but changing the code to
>    y=high*0.25;
> will clear it up. The problem only occurs intermittently and I've never
> gotten a helpful answer from the TS folks. So I've just kluged my way around
> it after a lot of trial and error. And yes, I've checked to make sure that
> the variables have the correct type declarations.
> 
> CRE
> Portland, ME
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- > Problem 3:
> > (TS2000i only, I think): I have an indicator whose sole function is to
> > dump Date, Time, O, H, L, C, Volume to the Debug Window in the
> > PowerEditor.  Sometimes, when this indicator is applied to a chart,
> > TS2000i complains:
> > "Floating point invalid numbers in calculation.  This error sometimes
> > indicates a division by zero with a zero also in the numerator."
> > The bizarre thing is that there are no floating point operations in the
> > indicator itself -- all the indicator does is call print() with the data
> > values mentioned above.
> >
> 

This is a classic. I have changed a lot of my people's code for this type
of problem.