Getting started with cobol GnuCOBOL installation with GNU/Linux ACCEPT statement ADD statement ALLOCATE statement ALTER statement CANCEL statement CALL statement COMMIT statement COMPUTE statement CONTINUE statement COPY directive String DELETE statement DIVIDE statement DISPLAY statement EVALUATE statement EXIT statement GENERATE statement FREE statement GO TO statement GOBACK statement IF statement INITIALIZE statement INITIATE statement INSPECT statement MERGE statement MOVE statement MULTIPLY statement OPEN statement PERFORM statement READ statement RELEASE statement RETURN statement REPLACE directive REWRITE statement SET statement SEARCH statement SORT statement START statement SUBTRACT statement STOP statement TERMINATE statement STRING statement SUPPRESS statement UNLOCK statement Intrinsic Functions UNSTRING statement USE statement WRITE statement Data division How does the computational work in cobol?

MULTIPLY statement

Remarks:

The MULTIPLY statement multiplies numeric data setting the result to one or more identifiers of numeric type.

Where rounded-phrase is

Some MULTIPLY formats

MULTIPLY 5 BY a

MULTIPLY a BY b
    ON SIZE ERROR
        PERFORM error-handling
    NOT ON SIZE ERROR
        PERFORM who-does-that
END-MULTIPLY

MULTIPLY a BY b GIVING x ROUNDED MODE IS PROHIBITED
                       y ROUNDED MODE IS NEAREST-EVEN
                       z ROUNDED

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