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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: What's the ICFP Programming contest?
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> 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.