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It's because the mantissa is encoded as a signed integer. If you drop the leading 00 you'll end up with a negative number (since the sign bit, the most significant bit, is then set). /David > No david, I am referring to a '00' in data, when i mapped the data bytes > to the fields, I got '00 7d f6' for mantissa, but the doubt is the same > value can have been denoted by simply '7d f6'. So, why is this '00'. > > [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 FIX-Protocol@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
