| SUNDIAL PROGRAMS IN COBOL There is no serious intent for these to be practical dial programs, the ATAN function has issues for a start, and for another, COBOL is just not commonly used on PCs. The COBOL programs are only for fun, and for legacy reasons. Similarly, I have a good IBM 1401 simulator, and will probably write an h-dial program in autocoder, using table lookup for ATAN, however, the reasons are the same, namely to honor the ancient legacy systems. Yes, I did program the IBM 1401 in the days of way back when. |
| An IDE COBOL compiler was here, it ran these programs, but would time out unless you purchased a license. It seems no longer to be available. It was called KOBOL |
| H-DIAL SUNDIAL PROGRAMS IN COBOL Cobol H-dial with the general full algorithm using iteration COBOL-hDial-series.cob Cobol H-dial using inbuilt trig functions note that angles are better than using my iterative trig series COBOL-hDial-functions.cob KOBOL notes on usage are here. |
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