Re: Ada decimal types

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message
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> > Why is there not a difference?  Won't the first actually use some
negative
> > power-of-2 as the delta?
>
> The LRM 3.5.10(2) is a good deal less than informative as to what this
> _Small_ might be. But unless I have been totally wrong all this time
> it specifies the value of the LSB of the type.

The small is defined in 3.5.9(8): "The set of values of a fixed point type
comprise the integral multiples of a value called the small of the type."

For the purposes of the original question, note that this applies to *all*
fixed point types. The only difference between ordinary and decimal fixed
point types is how the default value is determined. If it is specified for
an ordinary fixed point type, then that is the value used (of course).

                  Randy.