From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: 32-bit float and 64-bit float
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 11:01:46 +0200
Date: 2017-08-14T11:01:46+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <omrotq$1me3$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: omrnp7$1ko3$1@gioia.aioe.org
On 14/08/2017 10:42, Victor Porton wrote:
> I think Float and Long_Float will do the job on most compilers and machines.
Possibly.
> But maybe I should instead use "digits" in Ada? If yes, then how many
> digits?
Yes, digits is the safe way. You find IEEE 754 precision data for
instance in Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754
But you would, AFAIK, lose non-numeric values (like Inf), which is a
good thing.
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2017-08-13 22:29 32-bit float and 64-bit float Victor Porton
2017-08-14 6:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-08-14 8:42 ` Victor Porton
2017-08-14 9:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2017-08-15 18:11 ` Charles H. Sampson
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