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, ...

I'm stumped on this. I need to create a data file that some back end mainframe process can load. There is a specification file that is Cobol, and it specifies that most fields that deal with decimal ...

When anyone is first introduced to the topic of digital computers, they are almost invariably told that these machines are based on binary (base-2) logic and the binary number system, where “binary” ...