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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Float to String
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>> I basically need to output an XML file with float values. These values are
>> cosine proximities between documents. I want to be able to read this XML
>
>1) Write the value as a string representing a floating point value with as
>many significant digits as possible.  Use an Ada.Text_Io to convert the
  The cosine here is presumably a large integer divided by the square root
of the product of two large integers.  How about just writing the three
integers, so the external representation is completely accurate.  Then let
the reader calculate the square root and division, thus generating as
accurate a float as it possibly can, given its hardware.