Answer

As is explained in section 2.2, variables whose names begin with the letters I--N contain integers, whereas variables whose names begin with other letters contain real numbers. When Fortran tried to read values for I and J, it ignored the decimal parts because you did not provide integers as expected. (Some versions of Fortran are less forgiving, and will simply refuse to deal with unexpected input by aborting execution!)

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