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From: LR <lruss@superlink.net>
Subject: Re: Partners Wanted
Date: 1999/07/13
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Hi,
According to the draft standard (no, no, the COBOL one) section
14.10.25.3 (see http://people.ne.mediaone.net/pennyjs/home.htm)  the
value of Y will be 21 and the value of X is implied to be 7.  

But it's been about 15 years since I used COBOL.  So am I right?  Was
using the standard to find an answer cheating?

I guess that I'm assuming that both X and Y are something like PIC 99. 
And not PIC 9. Maybe your question didn't have enough context?  I guess
that it's possible that Y might be 1.

Can I ask about my report writer problems now? ;)

LR.

Andrew Koenig wrote:
> 
> In article <37928f6b.332959901@news.bctel.ca>,
> Roedy Green <roedy@mindprod.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 17:24:39 GMT, ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
> > wrote:
> 
> > >> >  MULTIPLY X BY Y.
> 
> > I asked a COBOL programmer.  He said that syntax is never used in
> > practice.
> 
> In other words, he doesn't know what it does, either :-)
> --
> Andrew Koenig, ark@research.att.com, http://www.research.att.com/info/ark