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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: Noob question..  Autopromotion?
Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 10:32:37 -0500
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On 5/5/2014 9:22 AM, sdalemorrey@gmail.com wrote:

>
> So the question is, if I use some sort of floating point type for all 3 values,
>

Would not using Fixed point type be better for financial application?

https://www2.adacore.com/gap-static/GNAT_Book/html/aarm/AA-3-5-9.html

Ada is one of few languages that supports fixed point type
as build-in data type.

--Nasser