Re: Higher precision and generics

[ucaa2385@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann)]

the clever way of an unknown author  (sorry)

: >|>      type Max_Precision_type is digits System.Max_digits;

is quite attractive, but consider
1. "with system;" makes the program non-portable
2. max_digits could turn out to become an exotic overly expensive niche precision

my personal preference is to declare a portable type with 14 digits
which maps to an acceptable hw-mantissa.
on some machines this is (even) single precision.

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