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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: next_period = start + n*period;
 versus next_period = next_period+period;
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:16:54 +0200
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* Paul Colin Gloster:

> however someone I am acquainted with swears by multiplication as in
> delay until Next_Period; where Next_Period := Start + Iteration*Period;
> instead, and demonstrated an example where it is more accurate. The
> following MATLAB excerpt illustrates this:

Time_Span doesn't use floating point arithmetic in Ada, and this
effect doesn't occur.