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Sun Researchers: It's not always Microsofts Fault!	by subbywan	2006-11-19 12:55:59
People do bad reasoning.	by mwq	2003-12-19 03:37:37
Also depends on the language	by ideur	2003-12-19 03:55:46
Now calculate the square root of two for me. (n/t)	by mwq	2003-12-19 04:21:11
Square root of 2 in LISP	by ideur	2003-12-19 05:11:34
I rest my case. (n/t)	by mwq	2003-12-19 05:13:17
Sorry, but i don't know FORTRAN well enough	by ideur	2003-12-19 05:23:16
If I must...	by wheresthefish	2003-12-19 05:46:19
I don't know FORTRAN, but	by mwq	2003-12-19 05:50:53
Not necessarily	by wheresthefish	2003-12-19 05:56:56
Been a long time since I did FORTRAN	by JohnClarke	2003-12-19 06:22:48
but I seem to recall that "DOUBLE PRECISION" meant "REAL8" on most compilers. And now I'm scratching my head trying to remembering how one got a long integer other than by "INTEGER8". Last time I used FORTRAN was 1988 I think. When I quit crunching numbers for a living I had to go to C and other things--never got back into FORTRAN due to the lack of a decent GPL compiler. OTOH, for some reason I sprang for APLPLUS backalong--perhaps I really am crazy. Of course in APL it's easy enough: SQUARE[left arrow]20.5 But APL mixes types with wild abandon. Incidentally, I'm a bit disappointed that AMD didn't extend the floating point capabilities on their 64-bit architecture--it can handle 128 bit integers in the general registers but only 80 bits in the floating point registers. OTOH, it's the only x86 machine that can do INTEGER*16 in a single operation in the general purpose registers and the only x86 machine where the general purpose registers can handle a longer integer than can the floating point processor. I haven't compared timings though--the floating point processor may still be faster up to its limit. Sorry about the ramble. Kona on top of dexedrine is good stuff but . . .
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It certainly means REAL*8 on every compiler	by wheresthefish	2003-12-19 06:37:52

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