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Has anyone read the FAST specification recently and noticed some strange discrepancies in the examples? Maybe I'm lacking some sleep, but, I believe that the tables are inconsistent in the way that they present the encoded data. For an example of what is confusing me, consider example 3 of Appendix 3.2.4. For the first row, the Encoded Value is set to "N/A-N/A", so how does the receiver deduce that the second value should be 12100? Admittedly, I have only read through the specification once but the way that I read it, a transmitted value of 0xff 0xed is required to get from 12000 to 12100? I didn't notice anything in the spec that confirms whether the receiver preloads the prior value as 0 or as 12000 for this case, but I assume that it starts at 12000, Also, why does the third line use a mantissa of 1210 and an exponent of 1 and not 2/121? Please help a very confused newbie! [You can unsubscribe from this discussion group by sending a message to mailto:[email protected]] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Financial Information eXchange" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fix-protocol?hl=en.
