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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: What's stopping you from using Ada for your next commercial
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On 2011-03-14, J-P. Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr> wrote:
> Le 14/03/2011 21:04, Simon Clubley a �crit :
>> For example, if you needed to implement code which handled values to (say)
>> 3 decimal places, you could just multiply the value by 1000 and treat it
>> as a integer internally.
>> 
>> Ie: 123.456 becomes 123456 and 345.45 becomes 345450.
>> 
> Not that simple when it comes to multiplication and division. You need
> to scale the result, and make sure you don't lose accuracy... i.e., do
> all the work that the compiler does for you.
>

Quite true; I should have given a more detailed response.

Ada is just a personal interest of mine but I am employed as a developer
in a business environment so I am very familiar with using fixed point
operations in code and it seems quite natural to me.

It does surprise me therefore how little I see fixed point calculations
been used in other environments.

Simon.

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