RE: Floating Decimal Package/Library?

["Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com>]

From: Bob Leif
To: Tom Moran et al.
The problem is not precision. It is the choice of the value for the
exponent

If I divide X * 10**5 by Y * 10**2, I want the result to be Z * 10**3.
This is what I did with a slide-rule 50 years ago!

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org] On Behalf Of tmoran@acm.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 12:02 AM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: RE: Floating Decimal Package/Library?

>>When doing financial software, you become very interested
>If the static requirement of Package decimal could be simply
circumvented
  What kind of financial software needs more than 18 decimal digits?
18 digits allows 9,999 trillion dollars to one cent precision.