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Subject: Re: Discrete random with given distribution ?
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tmoran@acm.org wrote:

> type ps is delta 0.001 range 0.0 .. 1000.0;
> for ps'small use 0.001;


Actually better is to use Ada 95 decimal types:

type ps is delta 0.001 digits 3;

It is one of the things they are provided for...