From: tmoran@acm.org
Subject: Re: What's the ICFP Programming contest?
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 22:37:23 GMT
Date: 2003-06-29T22:37:23+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xSJLa.57913$3d.28280@sccrnsc02> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bYvLa.21641$N%6.4860@nwrdny02.gnilink.net
> The model uses fixed point arithmetic, and the rules
> give an exact description of the representation format and how
> arithmetic works. I don't know enough about Ada to know whether
> this maps directly onto an Ada fixd point type.
They use truncating long integer arithmetic instead of rounding.
As I understand it, Ada allows either. The two compilers I've tried
both round.
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2003-06-26 1:30 What's the ICFP Programming contest? tmoran
2003-06-26 8:24 ` Preben Randhol
2003-06-27 20:37 ` Michael Erdmann
2003-06-28 0:21 ` tmoran
2003-06-28 7:33 ` Michael Erdmann
2003-06-29 6:47 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-06-29 22:37 ` tmoran [this message]
2003-07-01 5:58 ` overriding "*", was " tmoran
2003-07-01 20:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-07-02 17:10 ` tmoran
2003-07-02 18:13 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-07-03 7:55 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-07-04 7:01 ` Robert I. Eachus
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