From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 20:40:13 -0500, Gary Scott wrote:   
      
   > I think most casual, non-math, non-floating point experts would expect   
   > this:   
   >   
   > "The fractional part of a real number is the decimal portion of the   
   > number, excluding the integer part. It represents the difference between   
   > the real number and its integer part.   
      
   Sure. Except that computers typically do not represent floating-point   
   numbers in decimal, but in binary. This is the significance of the “model   
   representation” phrase in the language spec.   
      
   The way you describe is obviously the most natural interpretation, these   
   days. And most other languages do it that way. But not Fortran.   
      
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