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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.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-29 22:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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