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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:32:39 +0200
From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@nospam.please>
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Cesar Rabak wrote:
> Ludovic Brenta escreveu:
> 
>> Niklas Holsti writes:
>> [...]
>>
>> private package Thermometer.Some_Particular_Kind_Of_Sensor is
>>    type Count_T is range 0 .. 1024;
> 
> The ADC is ten bit, so it should be: "type Count_T is range 0 .. 1023;" 
> -- 2#11111_11111#

In this case, I find the base-2 literal harder to read -- how many 1's 
are there really? My eyes cross if I try to count them... Perhaps the 
best form is 2**10 - 1, as in Steve's version of the function.

-- 
Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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