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Comment by kps

4 days ago

Other way around. I–N were integers rather than float because mathematics convention uses i, j, … as indices and n, m as sizes or counts.

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eichin  4 days ago

The joke "God is Real (unless declared integer)" is definitely fortran-specific, though :-)

  • fuzztester  2 days ago

    I am the creator of fortran-j, in which god is imaginary.

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