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-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!irazu.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.belwue.de!not-for-mail From: Peter Hermann Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Float to String Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:00:17 +0000 (UTC) Organization: InterNetNews at News.BelWue.DE (Stuttgart, Germany) Message-ID: References: <526nxsbun7e2.1n5a4jpe7u7ww$.dlg@40tude.net> <87bre63qh3.fsf@beeblebrox.rfc1149.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sinus.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de X-Trace: news.BelWue.DE 1100098817 10029 129.69.118.70 (10 Nov 2004 15:00:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.belwue.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:00:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.7.4-20040111 ("Taransay") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.27 (i686)) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6115 Date: 2004-11-10T15:00:17+00:00 List-Id: Samuel Tardieu wrote: > 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. agree. different radices (Radieschen in German language :-) where the bases are not products of each other (e.g. like 2 and 16) lead to irreversibility due to the non-infinity of the mantissa size. -- --Peter Hermann(49)0711-685-3611 fax3758 ica2ph@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de --Pfaffenwaldring 27 Raum 114, D-70569 Stuttgart Uni Computeranwendungen --http://www.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/homes/ph/ --Team Ada: "C'mon people let the world begin" (Paul McCartney)