Hello,

That depends on what exactly (how much data per bar/per signal)
you are after. The devil is in the details. Please provide more info.

Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 1:57 AM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: AFL floating point number representation?


> Thanks Tomasz. I'm looking for a clever way to stuff two numbers into
> the 32 bit float and then later extract the 2 numbers. 
> 
> // fraction = 23 bit integer
> // exponent = 8 bit integer
> 
> The reason for doing this is to efficiently get an extra array of
> numbers into the portfolio backtester without thousands of static vars
> or Foreign symbols.
> 
> Is there a way to do this in AFL without writing a DLL?
> 
> --- In [email protected], "Tomasz Janeczko" <gro...@...> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> 
>> IEEE 754 Standard floating point (32 bit, single precision)
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-1985
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Tomasz Janeczko
>> amibroker.com
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: <hydrob...@...>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 5:13 PM
>> Subject: [amibroker] AFL floating point number representation?
>> 
>> 
>> >I need to know what range of values and what precision can be
>> > represented in the AFL floating point arrays, specifically the
>> > PositionSize array.
>> > 
>> > It would also be useful to know how many bits are available in the
>> > mantissa and exponent. Any help appreciated.
>> > 
>> > Thanks,
>> > Steve
>> > 
>> > 
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