# <span class='text-muted'>023.</span> `elemental` functions broadcast arguments

<span style='font-size: small;' class='text-muted'>topic: {ref}`procedures`</span>

```{literalinclude} ../../src/elemental.f90
:language: fortran
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```

```{code-block} text
:caption: Output[^gfortran-version]

          12
          12          15
          12          20

```

[^gfortran-version]: Compiled using `GNU Fortran (Ubuntu 11.3.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.3.0` with no flags

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Elemental functions broadcast arguments. Neat Fortran feature!<br><br>print*,area(3,4) ! 12<br>print*,area(3,[4,5]) ! 12 15<br>print*,area([3,4],[4,5]) ! 12 20<br>contains<br>integer elemental function area(length,width)<br>integer, intent(in) :: length,width<br>area = length*width<br>end function area<br>end</p>&mdash; FortranTip (@fortrantip) <a href="https://twitter.com/fortrantip/status/1472606914857078793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>