Flexible number format in _get_parameter_array

[germa89]

Close #952 by implementing an iterative process.

Ok, it might be slow sometimes, but I think it is a reasonable approach for this case. I setup an upper limit at F60.12 for the float format.

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[akaszynski]

Good thinking. I think the additional code complexity is worth the speed tradeoff here.

Would be nice to (eventually) get a gRPC message to pipe over this data.

[germa89]

I believe most of the cases it will just go on the first iteration. It might not be necessary so many steps though. But as you said, it will be mostly a "one-time" thing.