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Gary
You're SPOT ON.
I printed LittleUp:3:15 on both TS4 and TS2000i and got 0.010000000000000
and printed Range:2:15 and got 0.010000000000000 on TS4
and 0.010000100000000 on TS2000i
Do you think there could be an error in my '3rd party' Metastock database,
or
as you have said the way TS uses the binary represenation ?
My trust has just gone down 1/2 a notch !
Regards and many thanks for your expert diagnosis.
Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Fritz" <fritz@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Jon Macmichael" <jonmac@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "omega" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, 17 July, 2002 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: works / doesnot work
> > I have since been able to 'pick up' that trade by altering the code
from:
> > StructureChk = ((Range = LittleUp).........
> >
> > to:
> > StructureChk = ((Range > LittleUp*0.9 and Range <
LittleUp*1.1)...........
> >
> > The data has LittleUp as exactly 0.01 and I don't understand why
> > this is happening ?
>
> I suspected as much. No, LittleUp is NOT *exactly* 0.01. Internally
> it is a binary representation of the decimal value 0.01. Both TS4
> and TS2k use 32-bit floating point numbers, so in theory it SHOULD
> work the same on both systems.
>
> In TS4 they did some voodoo to only pay attention to part of the
> binary value, or something like that. Maybe TS2k does it
> differently. Try printing LittleUp with, say, 10 digits of precision
> on both systems. Only 7 should be valid, but see if they print
> differently on the two systems.
>
> Gary
>
>
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