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greendream17 on March 14, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why are most climate models in Fortran?

Gonum wraps the same code, from what i could tell fortran seem to have a neat way to handle more specialised number systems like dual numbers and hyperbolic numbers.

spacedome on March 14, 2021 [–]

You can do operator overloading in fortran to add a new number type, don't remember the details but I wrote a quaternion library once.

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