Re: Numerical calculations: Why not use fixed point types for everything?

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Friday, February 1, 2013 4:53:56 AM UTC-6, Ada novice wrote:
> What about using fixed point number representation for loop counters? It is common for example we have a time index in a program that is increasing with a value say t:= t + 0.01 seconds for each index in a loop. After a while, the floating-point representation will start failing in accuracy and at time t = 0.68 seconds, the number might actually be 0.67999992 for example.
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> But a fixed point number representation can avoid this. 

Something like this:
For Index in Some_Range with Delta X loop
 ...
End loop;