binary coded decimal
CLASS OF BINARY ENCODINGS OF DECIMAL NUMBERS WHERE EACH DECIMAL DIGIT IS REPRESENTED BY A FIXED NUMBER OF BITS, USUALLY FOUR OR EIGHT. SPECIAL BIT PATTERNS ARE SOMETIMES USED FOR A SIGN OR FOR OTHER INDICATIONS
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BCD, packed
decimal) A number representation where a
number is expressed as a sequence of
decimal digits and then
each
decimal digit is encoded as a four-bit
binary number (a
nibble). E.g.
decimal 92 would be encoded as the eight-bit
sequence 1001 0010.
In some cases, the right-most nibble contains the sign
(positive or negative).
It is easier to convert
decimal numbers to and from
BCD than
binary and, though
BCD is often converted to
binary for
arithmetic processing, it is possible to build
hardware that
operates directly on
BCD.
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(2001-01-27)