From: "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: Does Ada need elemental functions to make it suitable for scientific work?
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:51:25 +0200
Date: 2012-07-29T17:51:25+02:00 [thread overview]
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Le 29/07/2012 15:53, Robin Vowels a �crit :
>> Note that in any case the Sin you are calling is not specially known to the
>> > compiler,
> but in PL/I and Fortran it is.
Which implies that you can work only with predefined types.
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!
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2012-07-09 23:27 Does Ada need elemental functions to make it suitable for scientific work? Nasser M. Abbasi
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2012-07-10 4:22 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-10 14:26 ` Marco
2012-07-10 4:24 ` gautier_niouzes
2012-07-10 5:22 ` Ada novice
2012-07-10 7:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-10 8:06 ` gautier_niouzes
[not found] ` <637de084-0e71-4077-a1c5-fc4200cad3cf@googlegroups.com>
2012-07-10 8:39 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-10 8:58 ` Ada novice
2012-07-10 9:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-10 9:21 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-10 9:26 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-10 9:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-20 1:56 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-07-20 21:49 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-07-12 0:31 ` robin.vowels
2012-07-12 7:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-29 13:39 ` Robin Vowels
2012-07-29 14:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-29 20:54 ` glen herrmannsfeldt
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2012-07-30 4:15 ` glen herrmannsfeldt
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2012-07-31 8:53 ` MATRIX MULTIPLICATION Robin Vowels
2012-07-31 9:05 ` Robin Vowels
2012-07-30 0:49 ` Does Ada need elemental functions to make it suitable for scientific work? Robin Vowels
2012-07-12 0:22 ` robin.vowels
2012-07-20 1:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-07-29 13:53 ` Robin Vowels
2012-07-29 15:51 ` J-P. Rosen [this message]
2012-07-29 16:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-29 20:30 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-29 20:59 ` glen herrmannsfeldt
2012-07-29 21:44 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-07-29 22:54 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-30 0:53 ` Robin Vowels
2012-07-30 2:20 ` Shmuel Metz
2012-07-10 12:46 ` Brian Drummond
2012-07-10 11:06 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-10 11:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-07-10 12:20 ` Brian Drummond
2012-07-10 19:52 ` Ada novice
2012-07-11 8:41 ` gautier_niouzes
2012-07-11 9:42 ` Ken Thomas
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