On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Lance Norskog <goks...@gmail.com> wrote: > And the other important > thing to know about boost values is that the dynamic range is about > 6-8 bits
That's an index-time boost - an 8 bit float with 5 bits of mantissa and 3 bits of exponent. Query time boosts are normal 32 bit floats. -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com