Re: float with 24-bit resolution

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

"Matthew Heaney" <matthewjheaney@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Adrian Hoe <mailbox@adrianhoe.nospam.com.my> writes:
>
> > Randy Brukardt wrote:
> > >
> > >     type Randys_Type is delta The_Small range -Limit+The_Small ..
> > > Limit-The_Small;
> >
> > "-Limit+The_Small .. Limit-The_Small" does not comply to my requirement
> > which the angle must be in -360.0000000 to +359.9999571.
>
> I didn't understand Randy's comment.  As far as I know, the correction
> for T'Small is only necessary for the upper bound, not the lower bound
> (unless this is a 1's complement machine).

You're right. That was an Ada 83 failing which was corrected in Ada 95 (see
3.5.9(12). It's interesting that the AARM doesn't mention the change from
Ada 83. Perhaps it was an Ada 83 AI; I know we had to modify our compiler to
use a symetric range in order to pass validation.).

                 Randy.