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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!ucbvax!info-ada From: rgenter@BBN-LABS-B.ARPA Newsgroups: net.lang.ada Subject: Re: Questions about Ada Message-ID: <8602101410.AA04477@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 08:56:55 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8602101410.AA04477 Posted: Mon Feb 10 08:56:55 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Feb-86 06:45:05 EST References: <2608@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet List-Id: In message <2608@sdcrdcf.UUCP>, Steven Holtsberg 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. -------- Rick Genter BBN Laboratories Inc. (617) 497-3848 10 Moulton St. 6/506 rgenter@labs-b.bbn.COM (Internet new) Cambridge, MA 02238 rgenter@bbn-labs-b.ARPA (Internet old) ...!{decvax,linus}!bbncca!rgenter (UUCP)