mdavis@ada-uts.UUCP (08/30/85)
Correction: >As for compile-time constants (`universal numbers'): "The accuracy of >the evaluation of [such numbers] is at least as good as that of the >most accurate predefined floating point type...." [Ada RM 4.10/4] The next sentence is more important: "Furthermore, if a universal expression is a static expression (known at compile time), then the evaluation must be exact." Some universal values are not known until runtime; these are the values whose accuracy "... is at least as good as that of the most accurate predefined floation point type" but need not be exact. Mark Davis