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|    Me to Kay Diederichs    |
|    Re: FRACTION() seems broken in gfortran     |
|    15 Sep 25 20:34:42    |
      From: Me@invalid.domain              On 19.08.2025 12:15, Kay Diederichs wrote:       >       > The following program, adapted from the Example in the documentation you       > cite:       >       > program test_fraction       > real :: x       > x = 3.75       > print *, fraction(x), x       > print *, x * radix(x)**(-exponent(x))       > end program test_fraction       >       > prints:       > 0.937500000 3.75000000       > 0.00000000       >       > but I was expecting it to print:       > 0.937500000 3.75000000       > 0.937500000       >       > because the documentation says that fraction(x) is the same as x *       > radix(x)**(-exponent(x)) .              I just tested with Intel FORTRAN and yes it is as you expected              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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