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Subject: Re: Float to String
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From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.org>
Date: 10 Nov 2004 17:48:23 +0100
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"Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com> writes:

> After all the discussion from the other people I feel really ignorant, but I
> would simply do
> 
> Float'Image (Float_Value)
> 
> and
> 
> Float'Value (String_Holding_The_Previous)

That's the problem, you loose quite a bit of precision with these convertions.

Pascal.

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