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, ...

binary coded decimal 1 Articles . Packing Decimal Numbers Easily. November 30, 2018 by Al Williams 12 Comments . While desktop computers have tons of computing power and storage, some small CPUs ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the first column of this series, I introduced the concepts underlying BCD (binary-coded-decimal) representations. In my second column I discussed how we go about adding and subtracting unsigned BCD ...

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

Decimal arithmetic is indispensable in applications where precision is paramount, such as in financial, commercial and scientific domains. ... BCD (Binary-Coded Decimal): ...

1. Convert hexadecimal value 16 to decimal. A. 22 10 B. 16 10 C. 10 10 D. 20 10 The Correct option is – (A) 22 10. 2. Convert the following decimal number to 8-bit binary. 187 ...

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 ...