... Carolyn's talk " Tripping the Light Fantastic" was indeed ... fantastic! So lucky to have had her coming to Ireland, as part of the IYA cornerstone "She is an Astronomer". Click on the photo for some more snaps from her talk (courtesy of Paul Evans, IAA and Miruna Popescu). For fantastic Cassini images click here . Thursday, 9 July 2009 09:41 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... This function can also be used for particular types of subtypes or kinds: KIND (0) integer KIND (0.0) floating point number KIND (.FALSE.) logical variable KIND ("A") string of characters There is an intrinsic function SELECTED_REAL_KIND , which returns the kind of the type REAL that has a representation with (at least) the precision and the exponential range requested. ... With the choice SELECTED_INT_KIND (5) all integers between (but not including the limits) -100 000 and +100 000 are permitted. ...