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Article #2498Re: Fortran vs. C for numerical work - expression notation
From: John Prentice
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 1990 16:06
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 1990 16:06
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In article <1990Dec11.051448.10742@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Ivan Derzhanski) writes: << reply to Jim Giles concerning the fidelity of mathematical notation in Fortran and c largely deleted .. > >No, since both languages are hopelessly far from standard notation. >You know how introductory books go: "Thou shalt not write `(-1)**K' >as thou dost in maths" etc. etc. > > I think it is fairly obvious that neither fortran nor C maintain any great fidelity to mathematical notation beyond a very simple one. I also don't know that the people who wrote these languages ever suggested more than that. John Prentice
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