Re: Floating Decimal Package/Library?

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

More out of curiosity than anything else: Some hardware supports Binary
Coded Decimal (BCD) which was there to support Cobol-like numeric values.
(Its been a while, but IIRC, the MC680x0 supported it.) I'd suspect that BCD
would be suitable for Ada's decimal types. How would this apply here? What
would it likely look like under the hood? Would it be a better answer than
using some sort of scaled integer?

MDC
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"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@attbi.com> wrote in message
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>
> Ada decimal fixed point types are decimal.  Unless you insist on peeking
> under the covers, you need know nothing else.  But if you insist on
> peeking, read on.
>
> Decimal types are implemented as (almost always twos-complement) binary
> integer representations, with a static divisor that is a power of ten.
> So if you say: