Of course, there’s no reason we can’t just store decimal digits. That’s call binary coded decimal or BCD and ... you could store 16 distinct codes in 4 bits, and we are storing only 10 ...

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 ... details of using BCD (and related ...

In fact the full Cobol declaration is <B>S9(9)V99 Comp-3</B><BR><BR>I understand this to be pretty much a packed decimal (specialized binary coded decimal).<BR><BR>What I need to do is to write a ...

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 arithmetic ...

The single tactile button on board is used to activate the watch, showing the current time in hours and minutes in binary-coded decimal on the watch’s LEDs. Long-pressing the button puts the ...

Numbers however can take several forms. They can retain their decimal identity or they can be in pure binary form. See binary and ASCII chart. This method converts the entire decimal number into a ...