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Chapter 3 Programming Your Counter for Remote Operation

Overview of Response Message Formats

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Response Message Data Types

Table 3-3 contains explanations of response data types.

Table 3-3. Response Message Data Types

Type Description

<NR1> This numeric representation has an implicit radix point.

The maximum number of characters in <NR1> response data is 17 (maximum

16 digits, 1 sign).

<NR2> This numeric representation has an explicit radix point.

The maximum number of characters in <NR2> response data is 17 (maximum

15 mantissa digits, 1 sign, 1 decimal point).

<NR3> This numeric representation has an explicit radix point and an exponent.

The maximum number of characters in <NR3> response data is 22 (maximum

15 mantissa digits, 2 signs, 1 decimal point, 1 ’E’ character, 3 exponent digits).

Not a Number “Not a Number” is represented by the value 9.91E37. (Not a Number is defined in IEEE

754). The Counter responds with this numeric value when queried for a floating point

number it cannot provide. This value will be formatted as an <NR3>.

<Boolean> A single ASCII-encoded byte, 0 or 1, is returned for the query of settings that use

<Boolean> parameters.

<literal> ASCII-encoded bytes corresponding to the short form of the literal used as the command

parameter.

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<digit>

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<digit>

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