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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,69bb03cc695b330a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-10 04:00:06 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3AAA1736.A6C3F74E@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Large numbers (or is Ada the choice for me?) References: <98bbbg$jmf$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 11:59:54 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 158.252.146.154 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 984225594 158.252.146.154 (Sat, 10 Mar 2001 03:59:54 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 03:59:54 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5604 Date: 2001-03-10T11:59:54+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > > There are some Ada packages out there to do matrix math, but none that I > know of that will do so without some version of floating point numbers. > However, you could use these packages as models for ones of your own > implementation. The PragmAda Reusable Components' matrix implementation imports its element type. This allows matrices of complex numbers, for example. Therefore, it could be used with the original poster's infinite-precision rational numbers. See http://home.earthlink.net/~jrcarter010/pragmarc.htm or the mirror at www.adapower.com -- Jeff Carter "You couldn't catch clap in a brothel, silly English K...niggets." Monty Python & the Holy Grail