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The Limit of Characters in Fortran
The 80 character limit started out arbitrary, but the fact that it stayed means something. Go has a command andi formats to make code very specific for your code. The reason that the people in c kept the 80 character limit wasn't to do with punch cards. In ma, youare always leaping through imaginary numbers to bring it all the way back.
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