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Re: [open-cobol-list] Support for Big Numbers
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John R. Culleton |
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Re: [open-cobol-list] Support for Big Numbers |
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Thu Dec 1 15:58:04 2005 |
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On Thursday 01 December 2005 03:50 pm, Doug Vogel wrote:
> The Enterprise COBOL compiler for IBM and the ISeries (AS/400) ILE COBOL
> compiler support a field of PIC 9(31) PACKED-DECIMAL. Are there plans to
> implement this support in Open COBOL? A field with a description > 9(18)
> must be PACKED-DECIMAL.
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Packed decimal is usually used for dollars and cents type
applications. That said, I doubt if the gross national product of
all the nations on earth taken together would use more than
about 15 digits.
I would love to know what kind of application requires that many
places and that degree of precision.
John Culleton