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Re: Cobol NUMVAL Bug/Feature ?
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Dennis Handly <[log in to unmask]>
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Dennis Handly <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 22 Sep 1999 08:45:34 GMT
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John Zoltak ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: Always use COMPUTE var ROUNDED = FUNCTION NUMVAL(string)
: Note the ROUNDED keyword. This will solve your problem.
: John Zoltak

This is documented.

Unfortunately when we implemented a lot of the intrinsic functions, we
used floating point.  And never had time to go back and select "better"
data types based on the operands.

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