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From: bcphyagi@Twg-S5.uucp (Stephen Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: MS Fortran 5.00 FP underflows
Keywords: Microsoft,Fortran
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Date: 22 Sep 90 21:44:48 GMT
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In article <9504@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> tholen@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu
(David Tholen) writes:

>Hmm.  Interesting.  An INTEGER*1 variable can have only 256 discrete values,

Actually, INTEGER*1 variables are signed in MS Fortran, so their range is
-128 to +127.  Beware.
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Stephen R. Walton, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Cal State Northridge
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