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Q: What type of course is it?
A: A course that is a mixture of learning a language and an
introduction to numerical analysis.
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Q: Why to study Fortran?
A: Because it is still used to write code for the largest
computers in the world.
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Q: Where is it still used?
A: Legacy applications + anywhere, where efficiency and speed
matter.
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Fortran as an important language of computational sciences
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Numerical methods as subject area for which this course is an
introduction to
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Large scale computing examples - see the Top 500 list
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For most of these machines at least some codes are written in
Fortran
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Textbook based material:
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Number systems
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Binary representation of numbers
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Integers
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Floating-point numbers
Reading assignment: pages v-12