From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)  schrieb:   
   >> 	[#] Excel is right at the limit of its accuracy here.   
   >   
   > Then use Fortran.  :-)   
      
   > [[Mod. note -- As the author notes, modern Fortran offers excellent   
   > support extended-precision floating-point arithmetic.   
      
   [This is a bit nitpicky, and borderline relevant].   
      
   The Fortran language allows for such support, and has a standard   
   mechanism to ask for such precision via the selected_real_kind   
   intrinsic function, which you can use to specify the minimum number   
   of significant digits you want your variable to have.   
      
   A Fortran implementation is not required to supply such precision,   
   but popular compilers such as gfortran and ifort do indeed do so.   
      
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