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!news2.google.com!proxad.net!193.252.118.146.MISMATCH!news.wanadoo.fr!news.wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail Sender: obry@PASCAL Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Float to String References: <24Bkd.74362$HA.12207@attbi_s01> From: Pascal Obry Date: 11 Nov 2004 13:30:51 +0100 Message-ID: Organization: Home - http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.15.120.249 X-Trace: 1100176252 news.wanadoo.fr 9834 80.15.120.249:4180 X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6141 Date: 2004-11-11T13:30:51+01:00 List-Id: "Steve" 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. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.org --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key C1082595