Updated to reflect COBOL 2008 standards where appropriate.
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) for exact decimal precision, avoiding the rounding errors inherent in the binary floating-point math used by most modern languages. Batch Processing Efficiency: Updated to reflect COBOL 2008 standards where appropriate