Re: Large numbers (or is Ada the choice for me?)

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

Marin David Condic wrote in message <98bbbg$jmf$1@nh.pace.co.uk>...
>"Hans Georg Schaathun" <georg@ii.uib.no> wrote in message
>news:slrn9ai9uk.iv9.georg@apal.ii.uib.no...
>I know of none in existence, but that doesn't mean there isn't one. Try
>Adapower &/or Google.

Every Ada compiler has a (nearly) infinite precision math package
built-in. That's because of the requirements of the ACATS on literals:

    3#0.1# /= 0.333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333

And if there is any rounding, you'll fail this test.

But those packages are part of the compiler, not something usually
available to the public. The one in Janus/Ada is full of assembler and
weird usage rules (the latter because it was written in Ada 83, and we
didn't have controlled types to do the cleanup). The guy who wrote it
for use created a cute little calculator using it, and included some
scripts to calculate PI to 1000 digits and other useless tasks... :-)

                Randy.