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Subject: Re: PL/I Division (was Constant Identifiers)
From: "Joe Monk"
Sent: Monday, September 07, 2020 1:05 PM
> "No it isn't. 4/3 yields 1.33... to 15 digits,
> and is of precision (15,14)"
>
> Depends on RULES(IBM) or RULES(ANS).
From: "Joe Monk"
Sent: Monday, September 07, 2020 1:05 PM
"No it isn't. 4/3 yields 1.33... to 15 digits,
and is of precision (15,14)"
Depends on RULES(IBM) or RULES(ANS). If its RULES(IBM) it will never be
integer division. If its RULES(ANS) and the operands are unscaled, then it
will
Yeah, I misread the table.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of
Robin Vowels
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2020 1:34 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: PL/I division
On 2020-09-07 14:56, Seymour J Metz wrote:
No: see
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSY2V3_5.3.0
/lr/resarithoprt.html#resarithoprt__fig16,
Tables 3 and 4. For 4/3, the scale factor is 1, not 0.
4 is FIXED DECIMAL (1,0).
3 IS fixed decimal (1,0).
4/3 is fixed decimal (15,14).*
See
