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.

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, ...

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.

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 arithmetic ...

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

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 ...

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