From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <nospam@gsg.eds.com>
Subject: Re: fixed point vs floating point
Date: 1997/12/04
Date: 1997-12-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <348716B2.5050@gsg.eds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mheaney-ya023680000312972133130001@news.ni.net
I'd have to double check whether it's been fixed in Ada 95, but it used
to be that you had to define fixed point types with a range slightly
larger than the intended range in order to ensure that the arithmetic
model mapped properly into the problem domain.
Matthew Heaney wrote:
>
> In article <3485A850.3A92@gsg.eds.com>, nospam@gsg.eds.com wrote:
>
> >Is it perfect? No. But it's no worse than the anomlies in Ada fixed
> >point, and those are managable.
>
> I'm confused. What fixed point anomalies in Ada are you refering to? Can
> you elaborate?
>
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Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-12-02 0:00 fixed point vs floating point Robert Dewar
1997-12-02 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-02 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz [this message]
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-03 0:00 ` robin
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-03 0:00 ` robin
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2011-09-29 10:25 RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com
2011-09-29 10:49 ` AdaMagica
2011-09-29 13:38 ` Martin
2011-09-30 10:17 ` Stephen Leake
2011-09-30 16:25 ` tmoran
2011-09-30 16:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-01 11:09 ` Stephen Leake
2011-09-30 19:26 ` tmoran
2011-09-30 22:31 ` tmoran
2011-10-01 13:37 ` RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com
2011-10-02 14:19 ` Stephen Leake
1997-11-28 0:00 tmoran
1997-11-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-27 0:00 tmoran
1997-11-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-29 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
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1997-11-22 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-11-22 0:00 Matthew Heaney
1997-11-22 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-11-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-11-23 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1997-11-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-11-25 0:00 ` John A. Limpert
1997-11-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-23 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-11-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-24 0:00 ` Herman Rubin
1997-11-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-25 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-11-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-25 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-11-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-26 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-11-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-01 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-01 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-03 0:00 ` robin
1997-11-25 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-11-26 0:00 ` William A Whitaker
1997-11-24 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1997-11-24 0:00 ` Vince Del Vecchio
1997-11-24 0:00 ` Vince Del Vecchio
1997-12-03 0:00 ` robin
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