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From: Niklas Holsti <nholsti@icon.fi>
Subject: Re: Calculating SQRT in ADA
Date: 1999/03/24
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bob wrote:
 
   [snip]

> In Ada83 or Ada95, if the target is real, possibly the following:
> x : real;
> [snip]
> x = x**0.5;

Nope, for the standard "**" the right operand must be integer
(Integer'Base, actually).

> All of the Ada85 comilers I have used supply a "math" package
> containing sqrt also.

That agrees with my experience and would be the first place to
look.

Niklas Holsti
Working at but not speaking for Space Systems Finland Ltd.