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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,6a8952cbe009f3ed X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Received: by 10.224.110.68 with SMTP id m4mr6591646qap.2.1358578934170; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:02:14 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.49.15.100 with SMTP id w4mr2597585qec.26.1358578934062; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:02:14 -0800 (PST) Path: k2ni675qap.0!nntp.google.com!p13no1382002qai.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:02:13 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=95.199.15.217; posting-account=Rr9I-QoAAACS-nOzpA-mGxtAlZ46Nb6I NNTP-Posting-Host: 95.199.15.217 References: <4905b963-0036-4129-8050-fb26ef0154d6@googlegroups.com> <32314026-23ae-45b8-a4c5-e589e7d79de2@googlegroups.com> <7aeff757-a038-45e0-93d6-bd1d6e02093e@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Numerical calculations: Why not use fixed point types for everything? From: Ada novice Injection-Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 07:02:14 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 2013-01-18T23:02:13-08:00 List-Id: Thanks to all for the interesting discussions. Since my codes tend to use lots of mathematical functions, it is better then that I stick to floating point number representation. Thanks YC