From: garylscott@sbcglobal.net   
      
   On 8/17/2025 2:15 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Yes, which is abhorrent.   
      
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