100 Days of Code Log R1D1

This is my first day in the 100 Days of Code challenge. Today, I had started with the “Fortran for Scientific Computing” course in Future Learn. It had been a great start.

I had learnt about the precision available in fortran for various number data types. For example, the follow program deals with the single and double precision for real numbers.

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program sqrt_2

    use, intrinsic :: iso_fortran_env, only : sp=>real32, dp=>real64
    implicit none

    print *, sqrt(2.0), sqrt(2.0_sp)
    print *, sqrt(2.0) == sqrt(2.0_sp)
    print *, sqrt(2.0) == sqrt(2.0_dp)
    print *, sqrt(2.0_sp) == sqrt(2.0_dp)

    print *, sqrt(2.0_dp)**2
    print *, sqrt(2.0_sp)**2
    print *, sqrt(2.0_dp)**2 - sqrt(2.0_sp)**2

end program sqrt_2

It gives out the following result when compiled(gfortran -0 sqrt_2 sqrt_2.f90) and run(./sqrt_2).

   1.41421354       1.41421354
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 F
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   2.0000000000000004
   1.99999988
   1.1920928999487046E-007

Next, I’ll be looking into the strings and related operations in Fortran.