From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: SI Units Solicitation - Upgrade from comments
Date: 1997/08/22
Date: 1997-08-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.872265601@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 33FD19B8.5458@erols.com
Bill wrote
<<Give me a better name. Float is out since it is pre-empted by Ada. We
are simulating ATLAS whlch uses the term "DECIMAL", which I believe is
also pre-empted, and further is a poor discription for a binary floating
point number.>>
No, the type name Decimal is nowhere used in the Ada 95 RM, not even in
Interfaces.COBOL, so it is certainly not "preempted". I agree however,
that it is a truly horrible choice of names for binary floating-point.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-08-21 0:00 SI Units Solicitation - Upgrade from comments William A Whitaker
1997-08-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-21 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-08-22 0:00 ` William A Whitaker
1997-08-21 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-08-22 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-08-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
[not found] ` <33FE221A.547E@gsg.eds.com>
1997-08-23 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-08-26 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-08-22 0:00 ` William A Whitaker
1997-08-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-17 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
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