From: Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>
Subject: Re: Integers and Mathematical Correctness
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 09:02:37 -0800
Date: 2001-11-03T16:58:27+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BE4232D.6CC9ACA3@adaworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9rrsou$bl1$1@nh.pace.co.uk
Marin David Condic wrote:
> Just because I think the Ada attributes for math (and, of course, other
> stuff) are really cool things to have, I thought I'd mention: ARM Annex K
> wherein you can find S'Ceiling and S'Floor. They apply to floating point
> types, but they might be interesting in this context anyway. I don't know of
> other languages providing so many handy mathematical attributes that let you
> develop code for portability and/or precise behavior. Its one more reason
> why Ada ought to be of interest to those doing mathematical/scientific
> programming.
In other languages, these are provided as functions. In Ada, they are
attributes that
behave as if they were functions.
Richard Riehle
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2001-10-31 20:27 Integers and Mathematical Correctness chris.danx
2001-10-31 21:21 ` David C. Hoos
2001-10-31 22:16 ` chris.danx
2001-10-31 22:47 ` David C. Hoos
2001-10-31 22:55 ` chris.danx
2001-10-31 23:16 ` Matthew Heaney
2001-10-31 21:42 ` Mark Johnson
2001-11-01 18:57 ` Mark Johnson
2001-11-01 14:32 ` Wes Groleau
2001-11-01 16:18 ` wilhelm.spickermann
2001-11-01 16:48 ` chris.danx
2001-11-01 15:45 ` Charles Sampson
2001-11-01 16:20 ` Marin David Condic
2001-11-03 17:02 ` Richard Riehle [this message]
2001-11-05 14:47 ` Marin David Condic
2001-11-06 3:53 ` Eric G. Miller
2001-11-06 4:28 ` James Rogers
2001-11-06 6:06 ` peter
2001-11-06 14:48 ` James Rogers
2001-11-06 15:54 ` Marin David Condic
2001-11-07 3:44 ` Eric G. Miller
2001-11-01 17:10 ` chris.danx
2001-11-01 17:52 ` Chad Robert Meiners
2001-11-01 19:02 ` chris.danx
2001-11-01 17:57 ` Wes Groleau
2001-11-03 14:57 ` Charles Sampson
2001-11-01 16:11 ` Charles Lindsey
2001-11-01 18:40 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2001-11-01 19:18 ` chris.danx
2001-11-02 1:37 ` Steven Deller
2014-09-26 9:07 ` vincent.diemunsch
2014-09-26 16:38 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-09-26 16:58 ` AdaMagica
2014-09-26 17:51 ` Adam Beneschan
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2014-09-27 16:32 ` Niklas Holsti
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2014-09-27 18:52 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-09-27 18:54 ` Adam Beneschan
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2014-09-27 19:21 ` AdaMagica
2014-09-27 11:44 ` gautier_niouzes
2014-09-26 16:41 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-09-26 16:46 ` Adam Beneschan
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2014-09-29 16:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-10-01 19:48 ` vincent.diemunsch
2014-10-02 11:10 ` G.B.
2001-11-01 18:08 ` Tucker Taft
2001-11-01 18:54 ` David Starner
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2001-11-02 12:52 ` chris.danx
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2001-10-31 22:42 Beard, Frank
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