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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...