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Jeremy Watts

2005-08-17, 9:14 am

Hi,

Does Fortran have a built-in 'arbitrary precision' arithmetic feature,
similar to Java's 'BigDecimal'?


beliavsky@aol.com

2005-08-17, 9:15 am

Jeremy Watts wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does Fortran have a built-in 'arbitrary precision' arithmetic feature,
> similar to Java's 'BigDecimal'?


No, but you can look at the "Increasing Precision" of the Fortran Open
Directory at
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Progr...sing_Precision/
for some links to Fortran codes on this topic.

Joost

2005-08-17, 9:15 am

Seems like the FMLIB link is dead right now ...

Cheers,

Joost

beliavsky@aol.com

2005-08-17, 9:15 am

Joost wrote:
> Seems like the FMLIB link is dead right now ...


Thanks. I'll update the Open Directory to the current link,
http://myweb.lmu.edu/dmsmith/FMLIB.html .

Herman D. Knoble

2005-08-17, 9:15 am

Yes, David Baily's work:
http://crd.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/
http://crd.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/mpdist/
uses Type declarations to effect multiple precision.
Works very well and is totally in Fortran.

Skip Knoble


On 17 Aug 2005 05:34:25 -0700, beliavsky@aol.com wrote:

-|Jeremy Watts wrote:
-|> Hi,
-|>
-|> Does Fortran have a built-in 'arbitrary precision' arithmetic feature,
-|> similar to Java's 'BigDecimal'?
-|
-|No, but you can look at the "Increasing Precision" of the Fortran Open
-|Directory at
-|http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Progr...sing_Precision/
-|for some links to Fortran codes on this topic.

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