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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac6f692d19115ce0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trnddc06.POSTED!40f7026d!not-for-mail From: Puckdropper User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Exponent floats? References: <18pr9vfqxcnbs.3a905du0c170.dlg@40tude.net> <1xirxa3acvjyk.1t5pkha35fa8t.dlg@40tude.net> <1112032075.351759.228000@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:27:45 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.97.132.232 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trnddc06 1112048865 71.97.132.232 (Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:27:45 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:27:45 EST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10100 Date: 2005-03-28T22:27:45+00:00 List-Id: Pascal Obry wrote: > "Puckdropper" writes: > > >>Is this question common enough to warrant adding to the Ada Programming >>FAQ? My Computer Science class had the same question (about the floats >>and exponents) that was never answered. > > > Are you saying that the prof was not able to answer ?!? > > Pascal. > Yeah. He's only been using Ada as an introductory language for a few years, so he's far from a guru with it. I'm trying to remember details of something that happened last year, but the book we were using had a listing of the specification of a few standard packages and apparently the floating point exponent was supposed to work. Puckdropper -- www.uncreativelabs.net Old computers are getting to be a lost art. Here at Uncreative Labs, we still enjoy using the old computers. Sometimes we want to see how far a particular system can go, other times we use a stock system to remind ourselves of what we once had. To email me directly, send a message to puckdropper (at) fastmail.fm