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From: "Corey Ashford" <yeroca@rocketmail.com>
Subject: Re: precise floats
Date: 1998/08/04
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Bob Fletcher wrote in message <6q7vtb$jk$1@heliodor.xara.net>...
>What is the best way to define a float type that has greater precision,
>(like a lot greater), than the default one? Is there a simple way to do
>this?
>
>

The most straight-forward and portable way is to use a declaration
like:

type my_big_float is digits 12;

If the compiler doesn't have an underlying type that supports that
precision it will tell you so.

If you need more precision than can be provided by the hardware and
compiler, you'll probably obtain some extended precision arithmetic
packages.

- Corey