Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • Each Variable Has A "Type" Associated With It. The Main Types That You Will Most Likely Use Are

    Uploaded by

    Febe K. Ngaloy
    10 views1 page
    This document describes different data types that can be associated with variables in programming including date, real, integer, logical, and character types. Real variables store numbers with decimal points and have precision of 6 or 15 significant figures depending on whether it is a real or double type. Integer types store whole numbers within specific ranges. Logical types can only be true or false and characters store strings of a specified length.

    Original Description:

    Original Title

    Fortran Data Types

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Report this Document
    This document describes different data types that can be associated with variables in programming including date, real, integer, logical, and character types. Real variables store numbers with decimal points and have precision of 6 or 15 significant figures depending on whether it is a real or double type. Integer types store whole numbers within specific ranges. Logical types can only be true or false and characters store strings of a specified length.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    10 views1 page

    Each Variable Has A "Type" Associated With It. The Main Types That You Will Most Likely Use Are

    Uploaded by

    Febe K. Ngaloy
    This document describes different data types that can be associated with variables in programming including date, real, integer, logical, and character types. Real variables store numbers with decimal points and have precision of 6 or 15 significant figures depending on whether it is a real or double type. Integer types store whole numbers within specific ranges. Logical types can only be true or false and characters store strings of a specified length.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    of 1

    Data types

    Each variable has a "type" associated with it. The main types that you will most likely
    use are: 
    Date Type Bytes Precision Range

        -3x1038 to -1x10-38
    Real 0
    -38 38
    4 6 sig. figs. 1x10  to 3x10

        -1x10308 to -2x10-308
    Real*8 or Double
    0
    Precision -308 308
    8 15 sig. figs. 2x10  to 1x10

     
    Integer Exact -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647
    4

     
    Integer*2 Exact -32,768 to 32,767
    2

     
    Logical Exact .true. or .false.
    4

     
    Character*n Exact string of n characters
    n

    You might also like