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From: mdg@ariel.UUCP (M.GALE)
Newsgroups: net.lang.f77,net.wanted
Subject: HELP WITH REALS
Message-ID: <777@ariel.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Nov-84 17:17:17 EST
Article-I.D.: ariel.777
Posted: Wed Nov  7 17:17:17 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 8-Nov-84 19:35:03 EST
Organization: AT&T-ISL, Holmdel, NJ
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QUESTION: Where do we find out how to access some thing bigger
then a real or double >> 10**40? We both learned .FOR on DEC-10 
and VAX/VMS and got spoiled by documentation.

My wife is a Nuclear Engineering student whose programs won't
run under unix(SYS V), the errors are floating point overflow-
she has variables hit magnitudes of 10**250!  We borrowed a 
friends ibm pc compatible and Digital Research's Fortran-77
compiler and the program ran(and ran and ran-almost 2 hours).

The catalog from AT&T Customer Information Center didn't provide
much help. We're under Sys V on a VAX-780. I don't normally 
read net.lang so please email. I'll honor requests to
summerize if there are any.

Thanx,
mdgale	ihnp4!ariel!mdg
holmdel, nj	(201) 834-4535

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