The value of the number of degrees of freedom in a group is a real,
but it was being truncated to an integer before promoting it back to a
real. This is wrong, whether or not the number can reasonably be
non-integral. This only affected the conserved energy quantity,
not the kinetic or total energy used for coupling and output.
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