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From: rchrd@well.UUCP (Richard Friedman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: CDC FORTRAN trivia questions
Keywords: arithmetic if logical
Message-ID: <7588@well.UUCP>
Date: 7 Nov 88 22:14:54 GMT
References: <1196@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <3616@s.cc.purdue.edu> <7523@ut-emx.UUCP> <3622@s.cc.purdue.edu> <7693@boring.cwi.nl> <3627@s.cc.purdue.edu> <2183@tekcae.CAX.TEK.COM>
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The comment was made that CDC hardware prevented -0 from being
generated.  This was/is true, but there were times the FTN4 and
FTN5 math library routines would (for specific arguments) return -0.
This was a hard error to find, but eventually it got corrected.

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...Richard Friedman [rchrd]                         
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