Re: Float to String

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On 10 Nov 2004 12:15:04 +0100, Samuel Tardieu wrote:

>>>>>> "Dmitry" == Dmitry A Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> 
> Dmitry> TοΏ½Machine_Radix is not necessarily 2. So abstractedly, 2 is
> Dmitry> not any better than 10, 60 or whatsoever. Though in most cases
> Dmitry> it would do the trick.
> 
> Even using T'Machine_Radix doesn't give you a guarantee that you will
> be able to read the value back on another machine with a different
> 'Machine_Radix.
> 
> Each time I read a thread like that, I remember why I really don't
> like floating point values :)

It is rather people who are trying to use floating point numbers for things
better be implemented in other numeric model. We should not blame floating
point numbers for that. (:-)) I had funny talks with non-Ada folks,
wondering why Ada has so many different types of numbers. Because we need
all of them!

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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