From: rgenter@BBN-LABS-B.ARPA
Subject: Re: Questions about Ada
Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 08:56:55 EST [thread overview]
Date: Mon Feb 10 08:56:55 1986
Message-ID: <8602101410.AA04477@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2608@sdcrdcf.UUCP
In message <2608@sdcrdcf.UUCP>, Steven Holtsberg
<sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!steve@ucbvax.berkeley.EDU> writes:
> Two Questions:
> (1) In the reference manual, on page 8-10, it says that overloading
> is defined for subprograms, enumeration literals, operators, and single entries
> However, I do not know what "single entries" are, and I cannot
> find a definition in the manual.
> Does anyone know the definition of a "single entry"?
> (2) On page 3-20 of the reference manual, the canonical form for
> any floating point number other than zero is given as
> sign * mantissa * (radix ** exponent)
> My question: Why is radix given as a parameter?
> Isn't the radix, by definition, two?
No. On IBM-370s and their lookalikes, for example, it is 16.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1986-02-05 2:38 Questions about Ada Steven Holtsberg
1986-02-05 18:13 ` Mark Biggar
1986-02-10 13:56 ` rgenter [this message]
1986-02-10 18:12 ` rose
1986-02-11 18:15 ` Single Entry: a Buzzword? Stavros Macrakis
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