IBM Extension
IBM Extension
External Floating Point (Numeric)
An external floating point item is a character string
which has the following format:
- mantissa sign
- + or - (mandatory)
- mantissa
- A numeric value between 1 and 16 digits in length that may in addition contain either a period (.) to denote an explicit decimal point, or a V to denote an implicit decimal point. The decimal point symbol may appear in any position of the mantissa.
- E
- A constant that introduces the exponent.
- exponent sign
- + or - (mandatory)
- exponent
- A two- or three-digit numeric value.
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