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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: What about big integers in Ada 2005?
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Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 12:33:05 +0200
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Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

>         I'll admit I'm somewhat surprised GNAT (and likely others)
> implemented fixed-point math using scaled integers -- rather than a BCD
> package.

I allways thought we have both:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Types/delta
http://www.adaic.com/standards/95lrm/html/RM-3-5-9.html

Martin
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