If you declare a variable with maximal precision for one compiler and later compile it on a compiler with longer maximal precision, you get digits (bits) after the decimal (binary) point, Is it your position that FIXED variables are integers in one compiler but not in the other?
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Robin Vowels <robi...@dodo.com.au> Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 10:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PL/I integers: Constant Identifiers From: "Seymour J Metz" <sme...@gmu.edu> Sent: Monday, September 07, 2020 5:33 AM > PL/I doesn't have integers. It does. Believe it or not, the constants 4 and 3 that you wrote in the next sentence are decimal INTEGERS. > The ratiio 4/3 is FIXED BIN, > with some number of bits after the binary point. No. The division of DECIMAL constants can never produce a BINARY result. See the result of 4/3 appended to the program. INTEGER_DIVISION: PROCEDURE OPTIONS (MAIN); DECLARE (A, B) FIXED DECIMAL (15); A = 4; B = 3; PUT (4/3); PUT (A/B); PUT ( (A/B) * 6 ); END INTEGER_DIVISION; /* RESULTS: 1.33333333333333 1 6 */ ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2020 11:33 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Constant Identifiers On Sat, 5 Sep 2020 08:13:42 +1000, Robin Vowels wrote: > >As for writing formulas, I prefer to follow a well-known formula, thus: > >volume = 4/3 * 3.14159 * radius**3 > Beware! Than might left-associate as: volume = ( 4/3 ) * 3.14159 * radius**3 ... and the quotient of integers, 4/3, is 1. >However, if I'm interested in efficiency, I'd prefer > >volume = 4 * 3.14159E0 / 3 * radius**3 > ... (and correct.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
