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: 103376,245c84afd1e393ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!209.244.4.230!newsfeed1.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!news.binc.net!clubley From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What about big integers in Ada 2005? Date: 4 Oct 2005 06:57:10 -0500 Organization: Encompasserve Message-ID: References: <1581461.uQ1jN63t33@linux1.krischik.com> <5mo0f.529$B14.97@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com> <1x4pe4pv41qsn$.m5c5jawjqcpq.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1128426997 26506 192.135.80.34 (4 Oct 2005 11:56:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 11:56:37 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5371 Date: 2005-10-04T06:57:10-05:00 List-Id: In article <1x4pe4pv41qsn$.m5c5jawjqcpq.dlg@40tude.net>, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > > Curious, why somebody would like to use BCD for 45!? I cannot imagine any > use of BCD except than to speed up conversions to ASCII, which is not an > issue in these days. One reason to use BCD is because it's a compact data representation. One real world use of BCD that I have come across is in SMS messages where it is used to encode all the SMS message centre/destination/originating telephone numbers in the SMS TPDU packets. (Details in SMS specification GSM 03.40). Simon. -- Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP Microsoft: The Standard Oil Company of the 21st century