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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Does Ada need elemental functions to make it suitable for
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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:07:41 +0200
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Date: 2012-07-29T18:07:41+02:00
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On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:51:25 +0200, J-P. Rosen wrote:

> One of the great benefits of Ada (for floating point types) is the
> ability to chose accurracy and range, and let the compiler find the
> appropriate underlying hardware type. Most machines have more than float
> and double!

Which advantage gets lost when external numeric libraries are used.

Let us hope that growing interest in scientific computations in Ada will
result in natively Ada numeric libraries to appear.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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