From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,18f7f6e041b3e0bf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-17 03:56:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Information Systems Annex (usefulness of Decimal Floats) Date: 17 Aug 2002 03:56:14 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0208170256.13390643@posting.google.com> References: <5ee5b646.0208150126.ac9f65e@posting.google.com> <3D5D1EA5.1040406@cogeco.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1029581774 16447 127.0.0.1 (17 Aug 2002 10:56:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Aug 2002 10:56:14 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28161 Date: 2002-08-17T10:56:14+00:00 List-Id: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" wrote in message news:<3D5D1EA5.1040406@cogeco.ca>... > One recent example of this, was the Euro conversion, > where we had to do those triangulation computations > (three currencies were involved). You have a broad range > of values between British pound and the Turkish Lira, for > example. Sorry, I don't see this. Were you writing in COBOL? I would guess not. In COBOL, this calculation is easily done in decimal fixed point (and in Ada you could do the same thing :-)