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We often want to repeat a group of statements several times. It would be very wasteful to have the statements coded, punched and stored many times. Hence all programming languages provide facilities for repeating, or looping, a group of statements — the FORTRAN language provides the DO statement and the CONTINUE statement. Program 3.1 uses these two statements to loop a group of statements three times.
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© 1980 Roger Hutty
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Hutty, R. (1980). Looping. In: Fortran for Students. Macmillan Computer Science Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81445-9_3
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