code: def topDownCompute(self, encoded):
      
  
      scaledResult = self.encoder.topDownCompute(encoded)[0]
      scaledValue = scaledResult.value
      value = math.pow(10, scaledValue)
  
      return EncoderResult(value=value, scalar=value,
                           encoding = scaledResult.encoding)
docs: See the function description in base.py