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, ...

Conversion of binary to decimal numbers is often needed in firmware. And it’s done easily enough if multiplication and division by ten are acceptable. However, these operations, especially division, ...

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 ...

For the purposes of this column, we will focus on signed and unsigned binary integers. It’s usually best to start with what ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...