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From: Andrew <eagletalon@chartermi.net>
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Subject: Re: interest computing problem
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 02:47:48 -0500
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tmoran@acm.org wrote:
>>Your ending balance will be  1.00022E+03
> 
>   If you use Long_Float instead of Float you will get
> 1.02014488268319E+03
> Raising to the 365th, rather than 364th (7*52=364) power gives
> 1.02020078103290
> which matches within rounding error what your banker friend says.
i just tried to use long_float

although I am probably mis-using it

here is my attempted implementation of it .. sorry about the spelling 
it's now 2:42 am

=========
procedure Interest is
    Initialamt : Long_Float;
    Interest : Long_Float;
    TimeNWeeks : Integer;
    DRate : Long_Float;
    Days : Integer;
    Balance : Long_Float;
 

    package NUMBER_IO is new INTEGER_IO(INTEGER);
    use NUMBER_IO;
    package Float1_IO is new Float_IO(FLOAT);
    use Float1_IO;
 

===========

do I need to also make
package Float1_IO is new Float_IO(FLOAT);
be
package Float1_IO is new Float_IO(Long_FLOAT);

actually I'll try that...

nope that didn't help either....

i'm probably not using "Long_Float" correctly...

if you want could you show me the correct syntax..

either that or else I'll try to look it up in the morning.. i need some 
slpee.. err sleep