ANSI INCITS 42 : 1990

1. General
   1.1 Scope
   1.2 Purpose
   1.3 Application
2. Definitions
   2.1 Definitions of Terms
   2.2 Syntactic Metalanguage
3. Standard Numeric Representations
   3.1 General
   3.2 Numeric Representation Set 1
   3.3 Numeric Representation Set 2
   3.4 Numeric Representation Set 3
   3.5 Summary of Syntax
4. Revision of American National Standards Referred to in
   This Document
Appendixes
Appendix A The Meaning of Number
  A1. General
  A2. Meaning of Numeration
  A3. Numbers, Numerals, and Representations in This Standard
Appendix B Relation to Other Standards
Appendix C History of the Development of this Standard
Appendix D Application to Programming Languages
  D1. General
  D2. COBOL PICTURE Character-Strings
  D3. FORTRAN Basic Field Descriptors
  D4. PL/I FORMAT Character Strings
  D5. PL/I PICTURE Character Strings
  D6. Use of LIST-Directed Transmission in PL/I

Describes the syntax of the elements of three sets of character strings which are decimal positional representations of numeric values, that is, numeric representations (NRs).