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From: johnl@esegue.uucp (John Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: fortran statement
Summary: RTFM
Message-ID: <1989Jul31.155626.1835@esegue.uucp>
Date: 31 Jul 89 15:56:26 GMT
References: <28605@beta.lanl.gov> <588BLUMBERG@BGUVM> <10632@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: johnl@esegue.UUCP (John Levine)
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In article <10632@smoke.BRL.MIL> chidsey@brl.arpa (Irving Chidsey (INF) <chidsey>) writes:
>In article <588BLUMBERG@BGUVM> BLUMBERG@BGUVM.BITNET (Dan Blumberg, Dept. Of Geog. Ben Gurion Univ. Israel) writes:
><mod is the name of a two fimensional matrix sized I by J. MOd (n,2) is the...
>Sorry, but mod( n, 2 ) is almost certainly Fortran for N modulo 2, which is
>mathematics for n/2 with no fractional part.
>I don't thinkit is standard fortran, but it is common fortran.

Oh, for heavens' sakes.  MOD is the intrisic integer remainder function and
has been since about 1957 (when it was sometimes called MODF.)  I have never
seen a version of Fortran that doesn't have it, including the original
Fortran I.

If you have a simple question like this, it would be a kindness to the
200,000 people on the net if you spent a few minutes looking it up, rather
than blatting it all over the world.  (Not having a manual is no excuse --
it's certainly quicker to go out and find one than wait for the net to
answer.)

Grouchily,
-- 
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