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From: Cesar Rabak <csrabak@yahoo.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Translating an embedded C algorithm
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:15:14 -0200
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Niklas Holsti escreveu:
> Cesar Rabak wrote:
>> Ludovic Brenta escreveu:
>>
>>> Niklas Holsti writes:
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> private package Thermometer.Some_Particular_Kind_Of_Sensor is
>>>    type Count_T is range 0 .. 1024;
>>
>> The ADC is ten bit, so it should be: "type Count_T is range 0 .. 
>> 1023;" -- 2#11111_11111#
> 
> In this case, I find the base-2 literal harder to read -- how many 1's 
> are there really? My eyes cross if I try to count them... Perhaps the 
> best form is 2**10 - 1, as in Steve's version of the function.
> 
The three forms for me are OK while they are the correct representation 
(for the OP) of the 10 bit ADC spec.