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─────Intrinsic Functions────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
     Intrinsic functions are predefined by the Microsoft FORTRAN
     language. These functions carry out data-type conversions and
     return information about data types, perform operations on both
     numeric and character data, test for end-of-file, return
     addresses, and perform bit manipulation.
 
     Each function returns a value of integer, real, complex, logical,
     or character, and therefore has a corresponding data type. Some
     intrinsic functions can take arguments of more than one type.
     Others can return a value that has the same type as the argument.
 
     If you supply an argument that has no mathematically defined
     result or for which the result exceeds the numeric range of the
     processor, the result of the intrinsic function is undefined.
 
     When logarithmic and trigonometric intrinsic functions act on a
     complex argument, they return the "principal value." The principal
     value of a complex number is the number whose argument (angle in
     radians) is less than or equal to pi and greater than -pi.
 
     When the results of generic integer intrinsic functions are passed
     to subprograms, the $STORAGE setting determines the data type of
     the value to be passed.
 
     WARNING: Microsoft FORTRAN contains several intrinsic
     functions whose names are longer than six characters (ALLOCATED,
     EPSILON, LEN_TRIM, LOCNEAR, MAXEXPONENT, MINEXPONENT, NEAREST,
     PRECISION). If the $TRUNCATEfo metacommand is enabled, the compiler
     considers any function name with the same first six characters to
     be one of these intrinsic functions.
 
     See Also: ◄Alphabetical List of Intrinsic Functions►
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