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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Floating point problems in GNAT
Date: 1997/02/16
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Keith said

<<The division operator yields a result of type universal_fixed; the
implicit conversion back to type Duration causes a loss of precision.
As far as the programmer is concerned, this looks like an inexact division
operation on type Duration.

Real arithmetic is tricky.>>

This seems a poor example, since it is no different from the situation in
integer arithmetic, where 1/3 also is "inexact".