Re: What is Delta??

["Martin Krischik" <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

Hello Sathish,

Sathish Veluswamy wrote:

> Thanks for your help. I saw that link but still i find some
> difficulties in understanding about DELTA. So if you dont mind can u
> explain about DELTA in detail and if possible with an example.

what is there to understand? Delta declares a fixed point data type.
The same kind of fixed point data type you find in COBOL or PL/1. You
should have learned about fixed point data types at University or
Polytechnik. If not, you can read it up here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_arithmetic

There was just recently a very exhaustive thread about Ada's fixed
point type under the heading "Ada decimal types" here at comp.lang.ada:


http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ada/browse_thread/thread/16dbd7ecc6a3d50c

And I just remebered, I got an exapmple as well:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Algorithms/Chapter_6#No_64_bit_integers
http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/wikibook-ada/trunk/demos/Source/fibonacci_5.adb?view=markup

Hope that helps.

Martin

PS: its "you" not "u" - we are software engeneers here and not getto
kits.