Answer

PI is a mathematical constant, but we are representing it in the Fortran program as a variable! Surely we do not intend to change the value of PI during the middle of the program's execution, but there is nothing to stop us from doing just that. It would be nice if we could inform the compiler that PI is intended to be a constant. Then the compiler could let us know if we attempted to change it.

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