Re: Float to String

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.org>]

"Steve" <nospam_steved94@comcast.net> writes:

> 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
> value to a string, trim the string and add it to the XML text.

I've done that for now, but I do not like it...

> 2) Write the value as an integer value.  Since you are dealing with cosines,
> the range of values are between -1.0 and 1.0.  These could be mapped between
> the integer values of 0 to 2^32-1, (or -2^31 to 2^31-1, take your pick).
> This would give you a precision of 1/(2^32), which may be sufficient for
> your application.  You may be able to handle this directly by defining a
> fixed point type in Ada.

I'll look at this.

Thanks,
Pascal.

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