COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Procedure Division Verbs
HP COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs—522555-006
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SUBTRACT GIVING
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Precision
For any series of items involved in a subtraction, when their decimal points are
aligned, the composite picture must involve not more than 18 digits of
representation, or a size error condition can result (which can cause a run unit to
terminate abnormally with an arithmetic overflow condition). For information on
precision of subtraction, see ADD and SUBTRACT Statements.
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ROUNDED, SIZE ERROR, and NOT SIZE ERROR Phrases
See ROUNDED Phrase and SIZE ERROR Phrase for information on these
phrases.
SUBTRACT GIVING
SUBTRACT GIVING subtracts one or more values from a value of one identifier and
stores the results in another set of identifiers.
subtrahend
is a numeric literal or the identifier of a numeric elementary data item.
SUBTRACT subtrahend FROM
ROUNDED
END-SUBTRACT
ON
SIZE ERROR
minuend
GIVING
NOT
ON
SIZE ERROR
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