Re: [GNU-COBOL] New to COBOL

[Chad Slaughter <slaught@advancenet.net>]

Boris Kortiak wrote :>
>-FN
>All numbers in COBOL are essentially INTEGER types ? NO.
>I never used floating point numbers in Cobol, only in Fortran, Algol and so on. But on many systems from IBM, Siemens, Bull and so on you can use floating points in Cobol.
>
>But aren't those implementor extensions to the COBOL standard?

I think they are. They arent in the std. adn they dont appear to
be in the addedums. but might be in 9x/20xx?



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