From: Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com>
Subject: Re: ratioanl number type
Date: 1999/12/03
Date: 1999-12-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3847E553.1452CA24@averstar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38473D8A.9BB68676@gte.net
"Clifford J. Nelson" wrote:
>
> Are there any Ada95 examples in books or on the web that implement the
> exact rational number data type with overloading of all appropriate
> arithmetic operations and conversion to and from other number types, all
> in Ada95 without anything relating to the platform it will run on? It
> goes without saying that it is too difficult to predict the number of
> digits that the numerator and denominator need to have, so, available
> memory should be the only limit to their size.
We created this for our Ada 83 compiler long ago. It is written in
Ada 83. Here is a link to it. It worked for years, but we are
not in a position to provide a warranty on it...
http://www.averstar.com/~stt/_adasource/
Post a reply if you find an obvious stupidity in it somewhere.
Enjoy...
> Cliff Nelson
--
-Tucker Taft stt@averstar.com http://www.averstar.com/~stt/
Technical Director, Distributed IT Solutions (www.averstar.com/tools)
AverStar (formerly Intermetrics, Inc.) Burlington, MA USA
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-03 0:00 ratioanl number type Clifford J. Nelson
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Tucker Taft [this message]
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Dmitriy Anisimkov
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
[not found] ` <01bf43ea$646d5bc0$022a6282@dieppe>
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
[not found] ` <01bf43f3$3aadb600$022a6282@dieppe>
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-12 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-12-12 0:00 ` MMX (was Re: ratioanl number type) Vladimir Olensky
1999-12-14 0:00 ` ratioanl number type Robert Dewar
1999-12-17 0:00 ` Gisle S�lensminde
1999-12-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-09 0:00 ` rational " Wes Groleau
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1999-12-15 0:00 ratioanl " Alexander E. Kopilovitch
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