What do you prefer: real(8) or double precision and why?

From: Isaac Gouy (igouy_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: 29 Nov 2004 08:31:33 -0800

beliavsky@aol.com wrote:

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> Speaking of language comparisons, maybe Fortran should be entered in "The Great
> Computer Language Shootout" at http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/

The main reason that Fortran doesn't appear in the Shootout is that no
one has contributed a bundle of programs and suggested which Linux
compiler to use...

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