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From: robison@brazil (Arch D. Robison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Fortran vs. C for numerical work
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Date: 5 Dec 90 21:09:09 GMT
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>     Fortran has a relatively simple relation to mathematical formulae.
>You write the formula on paper and then transcribe it more or less
>directly into your program; ...

Have I missed the latest release of FORTRAN?  The last time I tried
to use differentiation operators, sparse matrices, set operations,
big integers, power series, or quaternions, the FORTRAN compiler was 
rather confused.  When I want to transcribe mathematical formulae, 
I use Mathematica.

Arch D. Robison				
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