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From: jf@threel.co.uk (John Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: C vs Fortran for numerical work
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Date: 7 Dec 90 11:30:57 GMT
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sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes:

> Except for one thing. In scientific computation typical dimensions would be
> more like 1000 by 1000 by 1000 by 1000 by 50, which requires a great deal more
> than a mere thirty pointers.

I can't help but feel that someone who needs an array of 50 trillion
elements has one or two other problems to worry about.

--John Fisher