Re[2]: strange behavior 4 query term boost

2006-09-27 Thread charliecmo
Found the reason, it is a bug IMHO. The example should be: A: term1^5 term2^6 term3^7 B: term1^5E-4 term2^6E-4 term3^7E-4 C: term1^0.0006 term2^0.0006 term3^0.0007 A & C suppose return the same rank B is different Since B will be parsed as: term1^5 E-4 term2^6 E-4 term3^7 E-4 The parser takes

strange behavior 4 query term boost

2006-09-27 Thread charliecmo
Hello, I don't understand why the following two queries give totally different results. term1^5 term2^6 term3^7 term1^0.0005 term2^0.0006 term3^0.0007 Can anyone explain? Thanks. (lucene2.0, using TopDocs) -- Thanks, Charlie --