Re: A85: BCD

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Re: A85: BCD


Binary Coded Decimal.  It puts only the numbers 0-9 in a byte so they
can be more easily manipulated as decimal numbers.  BCD can be easily
displayed as decimal numbers on the screen.  There is also packed BCD
which puts a two decimal digits in a byte (1 per nibble - 4 bits).

-mike pearce

On Thu, 21 May 1998 16:03:46 EDT, you wrote:

>
>>Now that I'm on vacation I can finish the BCD routines I started about 
>>a
>>year ago; am I the world's laziest programmer or what?
>
>What exactly is bcd?
>
>Justin Bosch
>justin-b@juno.com
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