Re: ADA arithmetic

[eachus@mitre-bedford.arpa (Robert I. Eachus)]

In article <1993Jul28.165516.1@otago.ac.nz> simon@otago.ac.nz (The Arch-Deviant
) writes:

   > It's worth 7% of Otago's core 2nd-year programming course (just
   > my luck - all the possible Comp. Sci. lecturers and I have to get
   > a software engineer! (sorry Paul, just kidding :-) ). Alas we're
   > only allowed to use VAXen so performance isn't really a concept
   > we're familiar with.

In article <235qd1$52u@schonberg.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wr
ites:

   > To put my 2c in on this issue, I thought the assignment in
   > question was pretty easy, well within reach of a first
   > programming course if the algorithmic points are discussed a
   > little in class.

   Actually, on a VAX it is very easy.  I may have a lot of complaints
about the VAX but the arithmetic support is not one of them.  Not only
will the ADAR stuff give you beaucoup digits on the VAX, but the
instruction set will allow you to do lots of high/multiprecision
things easily.


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					Robert I. Eachus

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