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Many of the available intrinsic procedures have argument types in common. For example: a logical argument MASK which selects elements of input arrays to be processed an integer scalar argument KIND which determines the kind of the function result an integer argument DIM for a reduction funct...
Intrinsic Functions are included in the COBOL standard as a set of functions that return values from a specific algorithm, given zero or more arguments. These intrinsic functions are provided as a facility of the compiler and runtime system. The return items are temporary COBOL fields, and can be c...

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