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The 64-bit Universal RNG 1 76 (9/19/2012 7:28:37 AM) comp.lang.fortran Marsaglia's procedure (below) produces 64-bit PRNs in floating-point. Re: Double precision random number generator in Fortran 77 Posted: Nov 18, 2005 7:41 PM George Marsaglia wrote: > wrote in message ... Robin

BLOCKED RECORDS 4 23 (8/21/2012 9:08:14 AM) comp.lang.pl1 glen herrmannsfeldt wrote: Aug 21, 1:22 pm In comp.lang.pl1 Robin Vowels wrote: >> > VB worked fine for PL/I. >> I suspected so. I remember once trying to use the usual (for Fortran) >> FB 133 for SYSP... Robin

PRINTER HISTORY 0 15 (8/20/2012 1:17:15 AM) comp.lang.pl1 In article , >robin.vow...@gmail.com (Robin Vowels) writes: >> On Aug 16, 4:06 am, "Charlie Gibbs" wrote: >>> The CPUs might have seemed lame by today's standards, but back >>> then they were the sta... Robin

IBM System /360 nostalgia 60 26 (7/20/2012 2:12:45 AM) comp.lang.pl1 On Friday, 20 July 2012 04:03:43 UTC+10, John Levine wrote: > On a 360/30, the MVC to move a 100 character field took 330us, or 355 > if it used EX to set the field length. Do a 20 of those for a 2K disk ... robin

OS/360 nostalgia 4 24 (7/19/2012 12:34:56 AM) comp.lang.pl1 On Thursday, 19 July 2012 09:18:22 UTC+10, Peter Flass wrote: > This is off-topic for this group, but since it came into the discussion > ... I don't think I ever saw an OS system without HASP, but withou... robin

Sound #2 0 18 (7/12/2012 12:20:32 PM) comp.lang.pl1 Hi, For IBM's Windows PL/I, is there an API for the sound card? I've generated sound files from PL/I, but I'd like to generate some sounds in real time (i.e., live). Is there one for recording? TIA ... robin

Reformatting a name field (text) 0 21 (7/12/2012 2:35:08 AM) comp.lang.pl1 Pete Dashwood wrote: >jmoore207 wrote: >> I was wondering if anyone had some goos examples of how to parse out >> a name and reformat it. I assume perform varying backwards would be >> best? >That woul... robin

how to build a format string on the fly? 1 22 (6/25/2012 7:25:44 AM) comp.lang.pl1 On Friday, 22 June 2012 07:35:10 UTC+10, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote: It beggars belief that, after 55 years, it still is necessary to resort to hacks in Fortran to do simple things like a variable number o... robin

Accuracy of results 3 28 (6/25/2012 6:29:38 AM) comp.lang.pl1 On Monday, 25 June 2012 02:23:07 UTC+10, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > There will be no more need to suffer with floating points > loss of accuracy any more. Hence no issues like this *(1): > --------------... robin

More PL/I compiler jewels #2 0 38 (5/30/2012 3:53:41 PM) comp.lang.pl1 PL/I for Windows:- %process list, opt(time); test: procedure options (main, reorder); declare s character (20); s = 'ac.d&e(f'; s = translate (s, (15)' ', '.()!@#$%^&*_+' ); xor ecx,ecx ... robin

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"word" 8 22 (9/5/2012 1:38:33 PM) comp.programming Anyone know how it came to pass that a "word" is 16 bits? This was very co= nfusing terminology for me when I was beginning. I remember thinking=85 a "word" of data? huh? ... bob3904 (233)

Converting postfix to infix notation 7 96 (9/8/2012 8:32:25 AM) comp.lang.fortran Please help. I am looking for an algorithm to convert a formula given in postfix notation to infix notation written in Fortran (or Pascal or pseudocode). The algorithm should put the proper parentheses. Th... Georg.Waldgreve (5)

Ranq1 from numerical recepies3 16 73 (9/17/2012 3:18:22 PM) comp.lang.fortran Dear friends, I am in need of a "good" random number, for which, I have used LCG for long.=20 Recently I found some problem in my application, probably due to the random number. Before going to marseglia, I... bnrj.rudra (343)

goto 11 44 (9/19/2012 4:00:19 PM) comp.programming In most languages that support goto, can you do a goto from one function to another? ... bob3904 (233)

gfortran (4.4.6) syntax error correct for parameters in DATA statements? 13 82 (9/20/2012 10:21:51 PM) comp.lang.fortran Hello, For the following test program: PROGRAM testf IMPLICIT NONE integer, parameter :: n = 5 integer :: box(2) data box/-n,n/ print *, box END PROGRAM testf I get the following f... paul.vandelst (1947)

Non-elemental procedure, multiple possible ranks 12 63 (9/21/2012 12:31:52 AM) comp.lang.fortran I was considering whether it's possible to write a procedure for multiple ranks without duplicated code, where an elemental procedure would be inappropriate. Here's a (mildly artificial) example of where this m... SeanSantos (2)

Endianness and Record Specification 8 50 (9/21/2012 6:16:43 PM) comp.lang.ada I have been reading over google searches all day and I feel like I'm missing something here. Is there a straight forward method to use Standard'Default_Bit_Order to define a specification for a record, that ... awdorrin (79)

IBM Enterprise PL/I 4.3 1 37 (8/30/2012 12:41:46 PM) comp.lang.pl1 Highlights of announcement letter 212-322: * Support for ARCH(10) machines add new instructions supported by the execution-hint, load-and-trap, and miscellaneous-instructions-extensions facilities. * ... Peter_Flass (934)

Pointer to allocatable array after reallocation 16 72 (8/31/2012 10:28:57 AM) comp.lang.fortran Hi, I have encountered a problem which is best demonstrated with the follow= ing code: program pointers integer, pointer :: ap integer, allocatable, target :: a(:) integer :: i allocate(a(1)... pawel.biernat1 (12)

archive object not work, please help 32 37 (9/1/2012 1:14:50 PM) comp.lang.fortran Hi there, There is a project with source file in 3 different directory. I use gfortran to compile them. project/module project/interface project/sub in project/module and project/interface director... jszhao (77)