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, too. It is pretty easy to do math on BCD numbers and you don’t get rounding problems.

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 ...

My last column introduced the concepts underlying BCD (binary-coded-decimal) representations. In particular, we considered unsigned versus 10s-complement versions of BCD numbers. In this column we are ...

I'm stumped on this.<BR><BR>I need to create a data file that some back end mainframe process can load. There is a specification file that is Cobol, and it specifies that most fields that deal ...

Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) BCD encodes each decimal digit in a single byte. For example, the number 7100 would take four bytes. A variation, ...

The binary watch would operate just like a regular watch except that the interface would be binary, specifically, BCD (Binary Coded Decimal).

BCD (Binary-Coded Decimal): A numeral system in which each digit of a decimal number is represented by its binary equivalent. IEEE 754: ...

13 thoughts on “ Beginner Concepts: Binary-coded Decimal ” Will says: January 8, 2010 at 1:59 pm I was so proud when I wired up my first BCD chip last month, I even ...

Here's a C/C++ program that converts decimal numbers ranging from 0 to 99,999 to binary and BCD formats. Using a simple algorithm in conjunction with pointer arithmetic and bitwise ...