More Arithmetic Operations - Multiplication and Division

Welcome back to our COBOL programming course! In the last lesson, you learned how to perform simple arithmetic operations like addition and subtraction. Now, it's time to expand on that knowledge and explore more arithmetic operations — specifically multiplication and division. Understanding these operations is essential, as they are commonly used in business applications for tasks such as financial calculations and data analysis.

What You'll Learn

In this lesson, you will learn:

  1. Multiplication:

    • Using the MULTIPLY statement to multiply numeric values.

  2. Division:

    • Using the DIVIDE statement to divide numeric values and how to handle remainders.

Let's see how these operations work in COBOL with an example:

Breaking Down the Code
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