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, ...

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 ...

(1) Numbers stored in pure binary form in contrast to their decimal representation. See binary numbers and binary file. (2) All data/information stored in the computer, which is coded in binary ...

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 ...