What types of arithmetic does Ada support?

Vector and Matrix Arithmetic. Ada supports vector and matrix Arithmetic for both normal real types and complex types. For those, the generic packages Ada.Numerics.Generic_Real_Arrays and Ada.Numerics.Generic_Complex_Arrays are used.

What is relicensing Ada?

RELICENSING Ada allows operator overloading for all standard operators and so the following summaries can only describe the suggested standard operations for each operator. It is quite possible to misuse any standard operator to perform something unusual.

What is a matrix used for?

Matrices also have important applications in computer graphics, where they have been used to represent rotations and other transformations of images. Historically, it was not the matrix but a certain number associated with a square array of numbers called the determinant that was first recognized.

What is a character replication operator in Ada?

A String is created where a single character is replicated n-times. In addition to standard Strings this operator is also defined for Bounded_String and Unbounded_String. The character replication operator is part of the Ada.Strings.Fixed package. You need to with and use the package to make the operator visible.