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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3132fa2f1b036425 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-31 04:45:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.nacamar.de!news.tu-darmstadt.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!not-for-mail From: Peter Hermann Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: number_base Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:45:11 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: sinus.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de X-Trace: news.uni-stuttgart.de 1067604311 24364 129.69.118.70 (31 Oct 2003 12:45:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.uni-stuttgart.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:45:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.12-20020311 ("Toxicity") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.21-cd-586-xfs (i686)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1867 Date: 2003-10-31T12:45:11+00:00 List-Id: Frank J. Lhota wrote: > Has anyone in this NG written an Ada program that used a number base other > than 2, 8, 10, or 16? These days, it would be hard to find an example that > uses base 8. Looking at current usage, it is hard to make the case for more > number bases. I repeat: it should be a tool for encoding/decoding rather than the very aspect of number base. An enlargement would make quite some own codes superfluous. -- --Peter Hermann(49)0711-685-3611 fax3758 ica2ph@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de --Pfaffenwaldring 27 Raum 114, D-70569 Stuttgart Uni Computeranwendungen --http://www.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/homes/ph/ --Team Ada: "C'mon people let the world begin" (Paul McCartney)