[Issues] LBCBLUE data
Erik Deul
deul at strw.LeidenUniv.nl
Mon Jul 16 09:51:38 CEST 2007
From the official FITS standard description for floating point numbers:
A floating point number is represented by a decimal number followed by
an optional exponent, with no embedded spaces. A decimal number consists
of a `+' (hexadecimal 2B) or `-' (hexadecimal 2D) sign, followed by a
sequence of ASCII digits containing a single decimal point (`.'),
representing an integer part and a fractional part of the
floating point number.
So the decimal point is obligatory, even at this low precision.
The LBCBLUE data is not conforming to the FITS standard. I won't change
the fitsconv code.
Erik
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