Re: Decimal versus binary arithmetic was Re: J4 - presentation/discussion on "Fu

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:37:12 -0600, Robert <no@e.mail> wrote:

>On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:55:10 -0300, Clark F Morris <cfmpublic@ns.sympatico.
ca> wrote:
> 
> 
>
>OK.
>
>01  numerator value 1 binary pic 9(9).
>01  denominator value 5 binary pic 9(9).
>01  quotient binary pic 9(9)v9(4).
>
>compute quotient = numerator / denominator
>display quotient
>
>0000000002000
> 
>
>Looks pretty diadic to me.
You may have to do this in Assembler to get the results that I am
talking about.  Take a look at the generated instructions.  If I had
access to an IBM mainframe I would compile a small test program to see
what the underlying code is.

Clark