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Annie P

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:41 pm
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In what conditions can I declare a COMP-3 field instead of a numeric PIC variable? and viceversa.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:12 pm
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hi annai, comp mainly used for incresing the efficiency and correctness of computation, coz comp variable has own storage where the comptation takes part, similerly comp-3 is used for decimal calculations, its storage (n/2)+0.5, where n is no of pic (99..)
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