From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,91965a012526b259 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!infeed-1.proxad.net!news4-e.free.fr!not-for-mail Sender: sam@beeblebrox.rfc1149.net From: Samuel Tardieu Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Float to String References: <526nxsbun7e2.1n5a4jpe7u7ww$.dlg@40tude.net> Date: 10 Nov 2004 12:15:04 +0100 Message-ID: <87bre63qh3.fsf@beeblebrox.rfc1149.net> Organization: Avian Carrier & Friends User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:660:330f:f810:200:39ff:fe25:3aa2 NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Nov 2004 12:15:13 MET NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.56.47.149 X-Trace: 1100085313 news4-e.free.fr 14858 81.56.47.149:62029 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6109 Date: 2004-11-10T12:15:13+01:00 List-Id: >>>>> "Dmitry" == Dmitry A Kazakov writes: Dmitry> T�Machine_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 :) Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/sam