From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: Floating Decimal Package/Library?
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:58:37 +0200
Date: 2002-07-30T10:58:37+02:00 [thread overview]
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<tmoran@acm.org> a �crit dans le message news: Y6f19.18869$vX4.189933792@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...
> Ada's fixed point types are
> nothing but integers with the compiler handling the scaling.
And arrays are nothing but an address with the compiler handling the indexing....
Kidding apart, handling the scaling requires care, and having fixed points in the language relieves the programmer from a delicate
task.
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2002-07-12 17:19 Floating Decimal Package/Library? Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-07-12 22:58 ` Robert Wessel
2002-07-12 23:30 ` Dann Corbit
2002-07-15 13:34 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-07-16 5:04 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-07-16 7:01 ` tmoran
2002-07-16 15:50 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-07-17 1:24 ` tmoran
2002-07-17 2:53 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-07-17 4:41 ` tmoran
2002-07-17 16:30 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-07-17 22:09 ` tmoran
2002-07-29 17:05 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-07-29 17:41 ` tmoran
2002-07-30 8:58 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen [this message]
2002-07-30 16:20 ` John H. Lindsay
2002-07-16 16:32 ` Pascal Obry
2002-07-16 17:53 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-07-17 1:24 ` tmoran
2002-07-17 8:28 ` Vadim Godunko
2002-07-17 13:32 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-07-22 23:33 ` Robert I. Eachus
2002-07-23 13:16 ` Marin David Condic
2002-07-24 15:18 ` Darren New
2002-07-24 15:43 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-07-24 16:17 ` Fraser Wilson
2002-07-17 13:30 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-07-13 21:55 ` Björn Lundin
2002-07-15 13:37 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-07-17 21:56 ` Waldek Hebisch
2002-07-18 14:13 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-07-19 14:41 ` Waldek Hebisch
2002-07-19 17:29 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-07-19 21:50 ` Waldek Hebisch
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