ANSI INCITS 42 : 1990

Withdrawn

REPRESENTATION OF NUMERIC VALUES IN CHARACTER STRINGS FOR INFORMATION INTERCHANGE

Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Withdrawn date

08-09-2000

Language(s)

English

Published date

01-01-1995

Publisher

Information Technology Industry Council

1. General
   1.1 Scope
   1.2 Purpose
   1.3 Application
2. Definitions
   2.1 Definitions of Terms
   2.2 Syntactic Metalanguage
3. Standard Numeric Representations
   3.1 General
   3.2 Numeric Representation Set 1
   3.3 Numeric Representation Set 2
   3.4 Numeric Representation Set 3
   3.5 Summary of Syntax
4. Revision of American National Standards Referred to in
   This Document
Appendixes
Appendix A The Meaning of Number
  A1. General
  A2. Meaning of Numeration
  A3. Numbers, Numerals, and Representations in This Standard
Appendix B Relation to Other Standards
Appendix C History of the Development of this Standard
Appendix D Application to Programming Languages
  D1. General
  D2. COBOL PICTURE Character-Strings
  D3. FORTRAN Basic Field Descriptors
  D4. PL/I FORMAT Character Strings
  D5. PL/I PICTURE Character Strings
  D6. Use of LIST-Directed Transmission in PL/I

Describes the syntax of the elements of three sets of character strings which are decimal positional representations of numeric values, that is, numeric representations (NRs).

Committee	X3K5
DocumentType	Standard
Pages	30
PublisherName	Information Technology Industry Council
Status	Withdrawn

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