From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7cda96e9413b780c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-07-16 09:04:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!freenix!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Robert C. Leif" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: Floating Decimal Package/Library? Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:50:02 -0700 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1026834662 71878 137.194.161.2 (16 Jul 2002 15:51:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 15:51:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: X-Envelope-From: rleif@rleif.com X-Envelope-To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:27153 Date: 2002-07-16T08:50:02-07:00 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----- From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org [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.