Enhanced arithmetic for Fortran

  • Authors:
  • Robert Paul Corbett

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Berkeley, California

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

The 1978 Fortran standard[1] permits mixed-mode expressions, that is, expressions with operands of differing data types. Expressions containing floating point operands of differing precisions pose special problems of interpretation. Consider the statement