Re: Ada decimal types

[Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>]

"REH" <me@you.com> writes:
[...]
> I do know how fixed points "work."  You are making assumptions about my 
> expectations and the standard.  Both of which are wrong.  The internal of 
> the decimal type are not defined by the standard.  It could be stored at 
> integers; it could be BCD.  I personally don't care how it is stored.  I 
> just know that Ada guarantees me that if my delta is 1.0e6, it can represent 
> every multiple of it within my range.  You can specualate all you want about 
> how it "works."  I just care that it does.

I think you mean 1.0e-6, not 1.0e6.

And it's the small, not the delta, that needs to be 1.0e-6.  If you
specify a delta of 1.0e-6 for an ordinary fixed-point type without
specifying the small, you'll (probabaly) get a small of 2.0**-20.
(As you probably know.)

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