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Data items which are going to be used in arithmetic must be stored in numeric fields. The fields declared in the Data Division must also be large enough to hold the numbers being used — be particularly careful about the length of the field that will hold the answer.
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© 1992 A. P. Royce
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Royce, T. (1992). Arithmetic using COMPUTE. In: Structured COBOL. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12240-0_14
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