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Subject: Re: A curiosity about decimal fixed point types...
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Look at
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Types/delta
for a description of the differences between ordinary and decimal fixed point arithmetics.

Decimal has precise rules like Cobol (needed for currency), whereas ordinary is less precise.