From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Question about ordinary fixed point types.
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:57:57 +0100
Date: 2010-08-16T09:57:57+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2sk2frl2i.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: i4adt3$2dtr$2@adenine.netfront.net
Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> writes:
> On 08/15/2010 05:46 PM, Peter C. Chapin wrote:
>>
>> Probably I should use extra digits in the definition of the range to
>> communicate my intentions to the compiler more precisely. Thus
>>
>> type Angle_Type is delta 0.0005 range -3.1415926535 .. 3.1415926535;
>
> Why not use Ada.Numerics.Pi?
We had a problem where a subcontractor had defined pi to be 3.14159
.. not quite good enough for a 32-bit Float.
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-15 21:43 Question about ordinary fixed point types Peter C. Chapin
2010-08-15 21:55 ` Shark8
2010-08-16 0:46 ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-08-16 4:13 ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-08-16 8:57 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2010-08-15 22:08 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-16 1:03 ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-08-16 4:11 ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-08-16 10:03 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-08-17 14:35 ` sjw
2010-08-17 15:51 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-08-16 11:31 ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-08-16 9:23 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-16 15:47 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-17 14:37 ` sjw
2010-08-16 11:02 ` Stephen Leake
2010-08-16 11:29 ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-08-16 12:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-16 20:28 ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-08-16 20:58 ` Adam Beneschan
2010-08-16 13:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-16 14:28 ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-16 20:31 ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-08-16 23:01 ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-16 23:17 ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-08-17 0:56 ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-17 2:03 ` Stephen Leake
2010-08-20 1:21 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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