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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: functions, packages & characters
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 22:25:20 -0500
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Do you have any formal training in mathematics?  Please do not take offense
to this question, but you seem to misunderstand what is meant by the phase
"for arbitrarily large values of x".

-CRM

"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
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> Chad R. Meiners wrote:
> > I believe this is what David is saying.  Normally when you write code to
> > accept arbitrarily large input, you write it so that it's only
constraint is
> > memory.
>
> He said "1500 was meant as an arbitrarily large value". But there
> is no such thing as an arbitrarily large value. To deal with large
> input lines, you need to use some other technique, such as the
> recursive Get_Line.
>