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Intrinsic Functions

An important features of Fortran 90 is its rich set of intrinsic functions and subroutines. These intrinsics allow the coding of data parallel programs at a higher level, and potentially with greater efficiency, than if their functions were programmed by users. They not only provide a concise means of expressing operations on arrays, but also identify parallel computation patterns that may be difficult to detect automatically. Fortran 90 provides intrinsic functions for operations such as shift, reduction, transpose, reshape, and matrix multiplication.



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