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From: "M. Kotiaho" <kotiaho@m_a_i_l.com>
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Subject: Re: Floating point accuracy
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:23:33 -0600
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Martin Dowie wrote:

> doh!
> It's my eyes that don't have the necessary significant digits!
>
> As Markku points out, the values for "ls" _are_ different - just
> not where I had expected! In fact they are exactly 1000ns different,
> as I should have expected (the last 3 digits are the same, and
> confusing me!)
>
> But, Markku, the 'Floor is doing exactly what I want it to do... :-)
>

Fair enough ... I figured I would try to explain why the values that
actually *are* the same, er, are the same.  That was more fun than
just telling you to take another look at your data.

FWIW, I think that GNAT for PPC/VxWorks does support 64 bit
unsigned integers.

MK