      if the current spread is 20 bid for 30,000 shares, 20,000 sharesoffered at 20 1/4, a quote-improving bid would be someone coming in with abid of 20 1/8. This would be considered an improvement because the quotehas narrowed.) On March 30, 1993, the NYSE issued a memo stating that allquote-improving limit orders arriving on the SuperDot implicitly dictatethat they would like to create a price improvement. The specialist mustupdate the quote on that particular stock as soon as possible in order toreflect the price improvement. A floor broker, however, has the right torequest from the specialist that his inside-the-quote order not create aprice improvement.