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What dose "d-8" mean in Fortran?
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What dose "d-8" mean in Fortran?
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2.0d-8 is the same value as 2.0e-8 except that it's stored as a double precision real number instead of single precision. In FORTRAN 77 it would be declared as REAL*16 instead of REAL*8.
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Much thanks to jtbell ;
you mean 2.0d-8 is equal to 2*10^ (-8) ?
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Yes.
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