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Re: intrinsic function for the imaginary part and conjugate?

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From: Dave Seaman
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:34
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In article <C183Gu.7MK@athena.cs.uga.edu> shen@athena.cs.uga.edu (Mingzuo  
Shen) writes:
> Hi all,
> 
>     Metcalf's book (Effective Fortran, 1985) has a list of
> intrinsic functions. Among them, the intrinsic function for
> obtaining the imaginary part of a complex number is AIMAG,
> which makes sense. However, there is no intrinsic function
> for obtaining the real part of a complex number?

I have not seen Metcalf's book, but the Fortran 77 standard says the  
generic function REAL, when given a complex argument, returns the real  
part.

>     More seriously(?), the instrinsic function for complex
> conjugate is also AIMAG? I am sure this is a typo or something.

According to the standard, the complex conjugate function is called CONJG.

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Dave Seaman
ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu
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