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From: "RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com" <rasikasrinivasan@gmail.com>
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Subject: fixed point vs floating point
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friends

I am investigating the applicability of fixed point to a numerical
problem. I would like to develop the algorithm as a generic and test
with different floating and fixed point types to decide which one to
go with.

Questions:

- ada.numerics family is pretty much floating point only - is this
correct?
- can we design a generic (function or procedure) that can accept
either fixed point or floating point data types at the same time
excluding other types

thanks for hints/pointers,

srini