Converted by Rich Painter, Painter Engineering, Inc. based on the www.netlib.org benchmark/whetstoned version obtained 16 March 1998. A novel approach was used here to keep the look and feel of the FORTRAN version. Altering the FORTRAN-based array indices, starting at element 1, to start at element 0 for C, would require numerous changes, including decrementing the variable indices by 1. Instead, the array E1[] was declared 1 element larger in C. This allows the FORTRAN index range to function without any literal or variable indices changes. The array element E1[0] is simply never used and does not alter the benchmark results.