Mark Taylor wrote:
>On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Clive Page wrote:
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>>have seen little evidence of need for more than one. I think it would be
>>more productive to work on a standard way of expressing the notion of
>>upper (or lower) limits - something which is so far missing from most
>>astronomical formats.
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>VOTable does provide such limits (MIN and MAX subelements of VALUES),
>but I don't get the impression they are widely used (I'm afraid none
>of my software writes them or does anything with such elements if
>they are present).
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I don't think that those are meant to be used as upper limit or lower
limit measurements. They are metadata meant to indicate highest and
lowest valid numbers for the Field.
Ed Received on 2006-06-21Z18:02:14