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From: "Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: Way to use Ada Mod function on floats?
Date: 1 Dec 2006 09:21:07 -0800
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AAFellow@hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I need to perform the mod operation on floats.  Does anyone know of a
> simple way to do this in Ada? It seems the mod function is only for
> integers.  I can probably multiply out the decimal places, and then
> divide my answer back, but if there is a more simple way that saves
> computations, I'd rather do that.
>
> Thank you for any help you can provide!

The 'Remainder attribute may help---see A.5.3.  T'Remainder(X,Y) [where
T is a floating-point type] will return a value in the range [-Y/2,
Y/2], which isn't exactly what you want, but I think you can just add Y
to the result if it's negative.  I'm assuming that Y is positive here.

                        -- Adam