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: 103376,7cda96e9413b780c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-07-17 06:37:05 PST Message-ID: <3D3571E4.6060503@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Floating Decimal Package/Library? References: <3D345DB3.5080609@cogeco.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 09:32:20 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1026912740 198.96.47.195 (Wed, 17 Jul 2002 09:32:20 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 09:32:20 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:27188 Date: 2002-07-17T09:32:20-04:00 List-Id: Vadim Godunko wrote: >>>Finally, I should mention that I am using GNAT. Unless I >>>am mistaken, it seemed that the decimal support wasn't >>>exactly decimal (I'd have to go back and recheck, but I >>>got the impression that it is implemented in binary >>>floating point). If it truly is implemented in decimal, >>> >> You got the wrong impression. Decimal is implemented as >>decimal, not binary. >> > GNAT implement decimals as binary fixed point values. Another way to > implement fixed point decimals is packed or not packed binary-coded decimals > (BCD). > Please get agreement with terminology. Are you sure that it is "binary fixed point". Is Robert lurking about here? Thanks, Warren.