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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: intrinsic functions, math operators (was: i++, i+=1, i=i+1)
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Date: 21 Sep 88 08:14:48 GMT
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In article <3823@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>Suggest a standard mathematical notation for min and max which most
>potential users are familiar with - I wouldn't oppose including it.

Depends on how you define "most potential users".
The notation I know and like is min= /\, max= \/, which is what's
normally used for lattices.  (If you use the usual ordering .FALSE. < .TRUE.
they even work nicely as logical operators, P/\Q = P.AND.Q .)