Re: NCL abs error on Linux

From: Nan Rosenbloom <nanr_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:01:56 -0600

Thanks to all for the quick response. We changed to fabs and it works
fine.

I had forgotten about the upgrade that prompted me to use abs unstead of
fabs.

Thanks again for the help.

Best -

nanr

Rick Grubin wrote:
> I misspoke:
>
>> Prior to that, NCL (including the version you're using at ORNL) did
>> not allow floating point data types as an argument
>> to abs() (then known as 'fabs()').
>
> That should say:
>
> There was no function 'abs()'; rather, there was 'fabs()' which only
> allowed floating point data, *not* integral data.
>
> My apologies for the mistake.
>
> -Rick.
> ----
> Rick Grubin NCAR/TDD/CISL/VETS
> Visualization + Enabling Technologies
> grubin_at_ucar.edu 303.497.1832
>

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