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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: What about big integers in Ada 2005?
Date: 04 Oct 2005 12:03:40 -0400
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<adaworks@sbcglobal.net> writes:

> BCD, and its cousins, including packed decimal, are used widely in the
> business data processing world.   Files are stored in these formats. At
> present, it is rather a nuisance to try to use Ada for reading these files.
> Not impossible, but not convenient either.

But Ada _does_ support packed decimal -- see F.1(2).

By the way, what's the difference between packed decimal and BCD
-- I thought they were the same thing.  (...shows how much I know
about business data processing)

- Bob