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A Fortran 90/95 Equivalent of Pascal

 
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SaintMichael57



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 6:37 pm    Post subject: A Fortran 90/95 Equivalent of Pascal Reply with quote

Dear Silverfrost Community:
Do any of you know of a function (intrinsic or otherwise) that returns the
same argument as that of the DIV intrinsic function of Pascal? Thank you. Smile
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mecej4



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 8:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you mean 'result' rather than 'argument'?

No function is needed. If a and b are of type INTEGER, a/b gives you the integer quotient. If either is of some other type, and if appropriate, use INT(a)/INT(b) .
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SaintMichael57



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 10:27 pm    Post subject: A reply Reply with quote

Dear mecej4:
I meant "result" rather than "argument." Thank you. Smile
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John-Silver



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2018 5:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

... or INT(AINT(A/B) maybe , for any A,B integer or real ?
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2018 12:50 pm    Post subject: Re: Reply with quote

John-Silver wrote:
... or INT(AINT(A/B)) maybe , for any A,B integer or real ?
In Pascal, the two operands of the div operator must be one of the integer types. The result (the quotient) is also of integer type. The Fortran intrinsic AINT must be given a real argument, and I see no reason to use it for the purpose stated in the first post. For many combinations of values, such as A = 65537 and B = 4097, INT(AINT(A/B)) gives the wrong result. In this case, it gives 16, whereas the actual quotient is 15.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

so what about INT(AINT(FLOAT(A)/FLOAT(B))) then ?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 11:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That looks reasonable and appropriate -- for a CDC 6xxx machine. The 6XXX CPUs did not have instructions for general integer arithmetic!
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