ILE COBOL Programmer's Guide


Fixed-Point versus Floating-Point Arithmetic

Many statements in your program might involve arithmetic. For example, each of the following COBOL statements requires some kind of arithmetic evaluation:

The following discussion explains when arithmetic and arithmetic comparisons are evaluated in fixed-point and floating-point. For details on the precision of arithmetic evaluations, see Conversions and Precision.


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