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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:02:45 +0200
From: Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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On 30.09.10 10:31, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:

> So, what is Ada's Float? 32 bit or 64 bits?

To be used only when their RM defined meaning is understood ;-)
Is anything wrong with taking control of floating point type
definitions, as always? And say, expressis verbis, what kind of
floating point numbers you need?



Georg