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From: AdaMagica <christ-usch.grein@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: fixed point vs floating point
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 03:49:48 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2011-09-29T03:49:48-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d3c2b1c5-28d6-48ce-aa9e-e02fa4d6eaa0@k10g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 440acd0c-f6ca-4c24-a8ae-3c5dbf71467c@dm9g2000vbb.googlegroups.com

Unfortunately, fixed and floating point are separate categories of
real types, so there is no generic formal that can serve both.

You have to make the type private and supply all numeric operations
like this:

generic
  type Real is private;
  with function "+" (Left, right: Real) return Real;
  ...
package Numerics is



  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-29 10:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-29 10:25 fixed point vs floating point RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com
2011-09-29 10:49 ` AdaMagica [this message]
2011-09-29 13:38   ` Martin
2011-09-30 10:17 ` Stephen Leake
2011-09-30 16:25   ` tmoran
2011-09-30 16:52     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-01 11:09     ` Stephen Leake
2011-09-30 19:26   ` tmoran
2011-09-30 22:31   ` tmoran
2011-10-01 13:37   ` RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com
2011-10-02 14:19     ` Stephen Leake
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-12-02  0:00 Robert Dewar
1997-12-02  0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-02  0:00   ` Ken Garlington
1997-12-03  0:00     ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-04  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-04  0:00         ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-12-02  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-02  0:00     ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-03  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-03  0:00     ` robin
1997-12-03  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-03  0:00     ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-12-03  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-03  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-03  0:00       ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-04  0:00         ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-12-04  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-03  0:00 ` robin
1997-11-28  0:00 tmoran
1997-11-28  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-27  0:00 tmoran
1997-11-27  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-29  0:00   ` Tarjei T. Jensen
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1997-11-22  0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-11-22  0:00 Matthew Heaney
1997-11-22  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-11-22  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-22  0:00     ` Matthew Heaney
1997-11-23  0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1997-11-23  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney
1997-11-23  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-24  0:00       ` Herman Rubin
1997-11-24  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-25  0:00           ` Joe Gwinn
1997-11-25  0:00             ` Matthew Heaney
1997-11-25  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-25  0:00               ` Joe Gwinn
1997-11-25  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-26  0:00                   ` Joe Gwinn
1997-11-26  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-01  0:00                       ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-01  0:00                         ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-01  0:00                           ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-03  0:00                           ` robin
1997-11-26  0:00             ` William A Whitaker
1997-11-24  0:00     ` Geert Bosch
1997-11-23  0:00   ` Tom Moran
1997-11-25  0:00     ` John A. Limpert
1997-11-25  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-25  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-24  0:00 ` Vince Del Vecchio
1997-11-24  0:00 ` Vince Del Vecchio
1997-12-03  0:00 ` robin
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