Re: Exponent floats?

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On 28 Mar 2005 09:47:55 -0800, Puckdropper wrote:

> Thanks!  I got it to work properly using the with and use statements
> that were added.
> 
> Is this question common enough to warrant adding to the Ada Programming
> FAQ?  My Computer Science class had the same question (about the floats
> and exponents) that was never answered.

Well,

David Botton has:
http://www.adapower.com/faq/

Martin Krischik maintains Ada's wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_programming_language

There are many good introductory on-line books, like Ada distilled by
Richard Riehle:
http://www.adaic.org/docs/distilled/adadistilled.pdf
(I always give it to our students)

though to my knowledge nobody wrote something like that focused on numeric
issues. That would be very interesting, because people coming from other
languages usually have very little understanding of how advanced language
support for numerics could be. One should repeat over and over again what
fixed-point numbers are, what is the difference between ordinary and
decimal fixed-point types. Rounding and overflow issues for floating-point
types etc.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de