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From: steve@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Steven Holtsberg)
Newsgroups: net.lang.ada
Subject: Questions about Ada
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Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 21:38:28 EST
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Two Questions:

(1) In the reference manual, on page 8-10, it says that overloading
is defined for subprograms, enumeration literals, operators, and single entries

However, I do not know what "single entries" are, and I cannot
find a definition in the manual.

Does anyone know the definition of a "single entry"?


(2) On page 3-20 of the reference manual, the canonical form for
any floating point number other than zero is given as

sign * mantissa * (radix ** exponent)

My question:  Why is radix given as a parameter?
Isn't the radix, by definition, two?