>>Do a google search on mantissa, exponent and epsilon if you want to get more detail on floating point calculations. My first BS degree is in Nuclear Engineering and I cut my computing eyeteeth doing Fortran code. *s*
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>Hi David,
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>It appears that there are quite a few with engineering backgrounds who now do data processing. I have Fortran "eyeteeth" too. :-) Pretty interesting.
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>Bill
Personally, I worked since my youth with computer programming (mainly xBASE), and then started a correspondence study (almost finished by now), for a "Bachellor of Science in Engineering Technology, with Major Emphasis in Computers". That is, emphasis is on computer hardware. I guess that this, and the fact that I did a lot of reading on scientific topics, gives me an engineering background, too. However, I never worked with Fortran.
Hilmar.
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