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 (or packed decimal, comp-3) Crazy Diamond Apr 3, 2007 Jump to latest Follow Reply ...

Of course, there’s no reason we can’t just store decimal digits. That’s call binary coded decimal or BCD and that has some advantages, too.

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 ...

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 ...

They can retain their decimal identity or they can be in pure binary form. See binary and ASCII chart. Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) BCD encodes each decimal digit in a single byte.

Decimal arithmetic is indispensable in applications where precision is paramount, such as in financial, commercial and scientific domains. The inherent challenges of decimal computation ...

10. What is the difference between binary coding and binary-coded decimal? A. BCD is pure binary. B. Binary coding has a decimal format. C. BCD has no decimal format ...

These chips take binary data in and output decimal data to a 7-segment LED display. In short, they can read 0b1001 from input pins and light the numeral ‘9’ on the display.