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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: S'Is_nan or S'Is_inf?
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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:20:47 +0200
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On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:12:01 +0000 (UTC), Warren wrote:

> I'm not personally
> a fan of these special IEEE values, but they crop up in 3rd party
> libraries like the GSL etc. or in the reading of binary values from
> a file.

This was a motivation behind

   http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/components.htm#IEEE_754
 
Inputs and outputs in IEEE 754 representations can be converted to and from
Ada floating-point types in a portable way. Within the program you forget
about IEEE.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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