[GingisK]

You don't "code up" data in FORTRAN, assembler, binary, or any computer language. Data is entered as, gasp, DATA. The computer, under the direct influence of a program written in any language, then reads the data. The computer then applies the computations specified by the program to get the results.

Data is "coded", algorithms are programmed.

For example, HTML is data, it is coded. HTML is read and displayed by a browser, which is a program.

[Reily]

“....You don’t “code up” data in FORTRAN. ....”

YES I KNOW THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!

I didn’t feel like writing a technical treatise as a reference work to my question!

I am trying to figure out what these “Significant Figures Did”?

And in my undergraduate days I had to digitize graphs by hand as far as I was concerned I was “coding it up”! I also had to get into the main frame a U-Haul of punch cards XFS data. Again as far as I was concerned I was “coding it up”!

So what did these people do that I should genuflect toward them?

I just want my question answered!