Re: Financial Calculations in Ada

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

rd <162144@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm playing around some with Ada, and today started with the
> intent of cooking up a crappy mortgage calculator.  I did the
> obvious:
>
>     type Money is delta 0.01 digits 12;
>     package MIO is new Ada.Text_IO.Decimal_IO (Money); use MIO;
>
> I hit a brick wall more quickly than usual in that I couldn't
> figure out a good way to handle interest rates that might have
> a decimal value with more digits than my Money type, such as 7.125.
>
> Can anyone give me any tips on how to handle this sort of thing
> in Ada?

An interest rate isn't an amount of money, so don't use type Money to
represent it.

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