From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,548c38bb2d3e1bb6 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!z28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ada novice Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: understanding floating point types Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:42:50 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <22d531ff-b6f1-44dc-8b5e-7d93f713b418@z28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> References: <74406fc1-f64b-4a3e-9dd6-301f1ed467ab@w30g2000yqw.googlegroups.com> <7b0ca24f-4a5e-43a9-9f71-e4adffb98694@q1g2000yqg.googlegroups.com> <37d8fbc1-fdaf-4ca9-9393-6163f2e3fa2e@s9g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> <2d2a622b-6c4a-45b7-9e3c-a565d5dbc9e3@p3g2000yqp.googlegroups.com> <5c162267-72b0-49a0-bed2-620e880612df@k10g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.240.232.147 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1282563770 19544 127.0.0.1 (23 Aug 2010 11:42:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:42:50 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=130.240.232.147; posting-account=Rr9I-QoAAACS-nOzpA-mGxtAlZ46Nb6I User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13664 Date: 2010-08-23T04:42:50-07:00 List-Id: Thanks to all of you for the nice explanations. YC