Before you begin this lesson, you should read the ``Intermission'' section (pages 245--250) for some practical hints on writing larger programs. You should also read sections 11.1--11.2 and 11.6. If you ever find yourself doing complicated numerical calculations with Fortran, you should be sure to read the remainder of the chapter.
You have now learned all the basics of programming in Fortran. For the remainder of the quarter we will skip around looking at interesting topics in the second part of the book. We will be looking at some fine points that will make it easier for you to write certain kinds of programs.
In this lesson, we will look at three topics related to numerical computations: rounding errors, DOUBLE PRECISION numbers, and COMPLEX numbers.
You need to copy some files before we begin.
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