Editor's Note: This is the first article in a two-part series on decimal representations and decimal arithmetic in general, and on Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) in particular. In this first installment, ...

That’s call binary coded decimal or BCD and that has some advantages, ... Multiply that by 3 and you are wasting 18 codes. But there is a way to hit that ten-bit target without doing any math.

HERE’S A C/C++ PROGRAM that converts decimal numbers ranging from 0 to 99,999 to binary and binary coded decimal (BCD) formats. Using a simple algorithm in conjunction with pointer ...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) is one of the only server makers that uses the Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC) character encoding to store data, as opposed to the more popular American ...

Technically, it isn’t a BCD (Binary Coded Decimal) watch. The minutes on this watch are displayed in pure binary, e.g., 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1, while if BCD, it would be 4, 2, 1 (tens digit), then 8 ...