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, ...

is numeric data that is stored in binary form. Binary numbers have a base of two and are represented with the digits 0 and 1. are binary decimal numbers that are encoded by using each byte to ...

Here's a C/C++ program that converts decimal numbers ranging from 0 to 99,999 to binary and BCD formats. Using a simple algorithm in conjunction with pointer ...