Re: understanding floating point types

[Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>]

On Aug 22, 8:05 pm, Ada novice <ycalleecha...@gmx.com> wrote:
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> 1. You used: type My_Float is digits 3; I tend to confuse the fact
> that digits 3 means 3 digits of precision after the decimal point?

Not quite - it's "3 significant (decimal) digits", e.g. 7_654.32 with
a float defined as 'digits 3', the "765" are 'guaranteed' what follows
those isn't (although in practice, any cpu I'm likely to be using,
will get more than the first 3 digits accurate).

-- Martin