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From: "Vadim Godunko" <vgodunko@vipmail.ru>
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Subject: Re: Floating Decimal Package/Library?
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> > Finally, I should mention that I am using GNAT. Unless I
> > am mistaken, it seemed that the decimal support wasn't
> > exactly decimal (I'd have to go back and recheck, but I
> > got the impression that it is implemented in binary
> > floating point). If it truly is implemented in decimal,
>   You got the wrong impression.  Decimal is implemented as
> decimal, not binary.
GNAT implement decimals as binary fixed point values. Another way to
implement fixed point decimals is packed or not packed binary-coded decimals
(BCD).
Please get agreement with terminology.