I think the multiplication is faster than exponentiation. However, my timings aren't...
Thanks, Simon. I don't understand what you mean by REPLACE. Is that the CDF stuff?...
Dang, forgot to log in again.
I asked this question over on comp.lang.cobol. Rick Smith's answer is very thorough....
Am home now, so will see how it goes on my Ubuntu box.
Now using cobc (GnuCOBOL) 2.0.20151025 Copyright (C) 2001-2015 Free Software Foundation,...
I can see rc-1 but not rc-2. Do you have a link for it?
I've been working on a RosettaCode challenge. It's Euler's sum of powers conjecture....