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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: SI Units Solicitation - Upgrade from comments
Date: 1997/08/22
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Date: 1997-08-22T00:00:00+00:00
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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.