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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to pehache   
   Re: FRACTION() seems broken in gfortran    
   10 Sep 25 07:02:03   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 10 Sep 2025 08:21:51 +0200, pehache wrote:   
      
   > We are still waiting what are these natural ways to get a fractional   
   > part of these other languages.   
      
   Let me try again:   
      
       ldo@theon:~> python3 -ic "import math"   
       >>> fraction = lambda x : math.modf(x)[0]   
       >>> fraction(3.75)   
       0.75   
       >>> fraction(2.5)   
       0.5   
      
   > This is precisely the advice you have received, instead of complaining   
   > that `FRACTION()` doesn't do what you thought it was doing.   
      
   Here’s what I said, again:   
      
   “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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