Re: Why zero is represented by an extremely small value?

"www" <www@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:f85gku$e1j$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,

I don't know a lot about Fortran. I noticed that when a variable value
is 0,

If the value is zero, it will print as zero.

if I print it out, it is a very small negative value, like
-7.6293945E-06.

It prints this value because the value of the variable is
actually -7.6293945E-06.

Is this normal in Fortran?

I noticed this when I was debugging a Java program which was translated
from Fortran one line by one line

<Fortran>

IF (TA .LT. 0.) THEN
..
</Fortran>

<Java>

if (TA <= 0.0) //It cannot be "<", must be "<=", otherwise the Java
results is different from Fortran results
...
</Java>

This is insufficient code on which to base any explanation.



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