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Micro Focus Visual COBOL 2.3 Update 1 for Eclipse (UNIX) > General Reference > Compiler Directives > Compiler Directives - Alphabetical List > ARITHMETIC
Micro Focus Visual COBOL 2.3 Update 1 for Eclipse (UNIX) > General Reference > Compiler Directives > Run-time Behavior > Run-time Behavior - Arithmetic > ARITHMETIC

ARITHMETIC

Specifies how arithmetic expressions are to be evaluated.

Syntax:

>>-.---.--ARITHMETIC--"arith-type"---------><
   +-/-+

Parameters:

arith-type
The behavior to adopt:
ENTCOBOL
Truncate according to the rules of Enterprise COBOL for z/OS and OS/390.
MF, ISO2002 or ANSI
Do not truncate intermediate results. With ARITHMETIC"MF", ARITHMETIC"ISO2002" or ARITHMETIC"ANSI" specified, expressions are calculated as accurately as possible because no truncation takes place.
OS390
Truncate according to the rules of COBOL for OS/390.
OSVS
Truncate according to the rules of OS/VS COBOL.
VSC2
Truncate according to the rules of VS COBOL II and COBOL/370.

Properties:

Default: ARITHMETIC"MF"
Phase: Syntax check
$SET: Initial
Parent topic: Run-time Behavior - Arithmetic
Parent topic: Compiler Directives - Alphabetical List
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Run-time Behavior - General
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