Re: whole number constants

"Paul van Delst" <Paul.vanDelst@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:g64n29$839$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Richard Maine wrote:

There is no such thing as a "true constant."

Completely off topic, but never a truer word has been spoken.

According to Murphy's Law, constants aren't.
And this especially applies to Fortran.

Even fundamental constants
(Planck, Boltzmann, fine-structure etc) are updated every four years or so as measurements
of things like the molar gas constant, avagodro's#, electron charge, etc improve. Or you
use even more digits for pi (if you're using the magnetic permeability).

Anyway....

cheers,

paulv


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