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Foton Header Arrangement Gets Flipped during Model Compilation, Causing Alarm Fatigue

We've been periodically finding front-end modules that show differences when no one reports making changes. Upon looking at the diff provided by the RCG system (an awesome newish feature) between the loaded file, and the to be loaded file, there are TONs of differences. Upon close inspection, however, those changes are entirely superficial -- the header of the file where all filter banks in the model are recorded (in "some" order) has been flipped or re-ordered, and/or (sometimes both, sometimes one or the other) the coefficient notation has switched from engineering/decimal notation to scientific notation.

see further details -- and an example foton file diff in LHO aLOG 44030 https://alog.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/aLOG/index.php?callRep=44030

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