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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Floating point representation-help
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"David C. Hoos" <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1029157742.20629.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>...

> However, performing a computation with such a value as an
> operand should raise an exception.

No, that's wrong you are making up rules that do not exist.
Remember that Float is an unconstrained type!