Fortran integers (was: Re: Right toolf for the job...) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

12 Jan 2012

At 1:01 -0600 1/5/12, Mouse wrote:
...
   [In FORTRAN,
a]ny variable whose name starts with the letters I J K L
  M or N (alphabetic letters between I and N (which is the start of
  "INteger")) is assumed to be an int, unless you tell it otherwise. 
...and others are assumed to be real.  But is the first two letters of
"integer" where that came from?  I'd always assumed it came from
mathematical convention, which uses letters i through n (often modified
with subscripts and the like) for things such as summation indices that
are most appropriately translated into programming languages as
integral types. 
"Perrier".

(H to O, exclusive)

Sorry for long-delayed response, and bad pun.
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