indexing

description: "A representation for real numbers with a fixed precision.";
keywords: "Still to be entered";
status: "See notice at end of class";
date: "$Date$";
revision: "$Revision$"

class FIXED_VALUE

creation
    make

feature -- Initialization

    make (m, f, d, s : INTEGER) is

        do
            mantissa := m
            fraction := f
            digits   := d
            scale    := s
        end
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feature -- Access

    mantissa : INTEGER
    fraction : INTEGER
    digits   : INTEGER
    scale    : INTEGER
---------------------------------------------------------

    length : INTEGER is
        -- Sum of digits in mantissa and fraction is

        do
            result := nr_digits (mantissa) + nr_digits (fraction)
        end
---------------------------------------------------------
feature -- Implementation

    nr_digits (n : INTEGER) : INTEGER is
        -- There may be some more intelligent way to do this.

        local
            tmp : STRING

        do
            tmp := ""
            tmp.append_integer (n)
            result := tmp.count
        end

end -- class FIXED_VALUE

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