• letters, and some special and control characters as six-bit character codes. Unlike later encodings such as ASCII, BCD codes were not standardized. Different...
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  • A six-bit character code is a character encoding designed for use on computers with word lengths a multiple of 6. Six bits can only encode 64 distinct...
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  • BCD in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. BCD may refer to: Binary-coded decimal, a representation of decimal digits in binary BCD (character encoding)...
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    computing and electronic systems, binary-coded decimal (BCD) is a class of binary encodings of decimal numbers where each digit is represented by a fixed...
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    encoding and cyphering systems, such as Bacon's cipher, Braille, international maritime signal flags, and the 4-digit encoding of Chinese characters for...
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  • disposable lighter Burroughs Interchange Code, BIC (character encoding), a derivative of the BCD character encoding Business Identifier Code or Bank Identifier...
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  • ASCII character (value 3). BCD numbers are generally assumed to be stored in the lowest byte of a register, e.g. AL; operations on unpacked BCD numbers...
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  • Binary code (redirect from Binary encoding)
    telecommunications, binary codes are used for various methods of encoding data, such as character strings, into bit strings. Those methods may use fixed-width...
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  • SQUOZE (redirect from SQUOZE encoding)
    DEC Squoze. Packed BCD Hertz encoding Chen–Ho encoding Densely packed decimal (DPD) BCD (character encoding) Base 50 (numeral system) Base conversion SHARE...
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  • eight-bit character encoding, developed separately from the seven-bit ASCII encoding scheme. It was created to extend the existing Binary-Coded Decimal (BCD) Interchange...
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    implemented these types, using the densely packed decimal binary encoding rather than BCD. Starting with Power ISA 3.0, decimal integer arithmetic instructions...
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  • option. Transcode is a six-bit character code. It relates to IBM's punched card code but, like EBCDIC, it is not BCD. Its 64 values consist of the 26...
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  • CDC display code (category Character sets)
    packed 10 characters per word. It is a six-bit extension of the four-bit BCD encoding, and was referred to as BCDIC[citation needed] (BCD interchange...
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  • to 86399. The types are: BCD, CF, SBS BCD, CF BCD BCD, SBS BCD, BCD_Year, CF, SBS BCD, BCD_Year, CF BCD, BCD_Year BCD, BCD_Year, SBS The recognized signal...
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    Composition of all other characters, including display patterns for BCD inputs above nine, is identical....Display patterns for BCD input counts above 9 are...
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  • Support for Base16 encoding is ubiquitous in modern computing. It is the basis for the W3C standard for URL percent encoding, where a character is replaced with...
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    IBM called the 1401's character code BCD ("binary-coded decimal"), even though that term describes only the decimal digit encoding. The 1401's alphanumeric...
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  • Base 40 Base conversion Chen–Ho encoding Densely packed decimal (DPD) Hertz encoding Packed BCD Six-bit character code Split octal "Chapter VI: The...
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  • 1 to 48 bits have been used. The six-bit character code was an often-used implementation in early encoding systems, and computers using six-bit and nine-bit...
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  • Six-bit BCD (Binary Coded Decimal), used by early mainframe computers. Six-bit ASCII subset of the primitive seven-bit ASCII Braille – Braille characters are...
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  • a code page is a character encoding and as such it is a specific association of a set of printable characters and control characters with unique numbers...
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  • Gray code (redirect from Natural Gray BCD)
    Schleifencode (English: "loop code"). It differs from Gray BCD code only in the encoding of state 0 to make it a cyclic unit-distance code for full-circle...
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  • numeral system and also sometimes called thermometer code, is an entropy encoding that represents a natural number, n, with a code of length n + 1 ( or n...
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  • IBM tape labels on 9-track tapes use EBCDIC character encoding; 7-track tapes (now obsolete) used BCD encoding. ANSI/ISO/ECMA tape labels are similar to...
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    and 4-bit BCD is commonly referred to as 'numeric-paging'. BCD encoding packs 4 bit BCD symbols 5 to a codeword into bits 30-11. The most significant...
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  • from the punch card era that occurred when NORAD updated from the BCD to EBCDIC character set on the computer sending out the updates. This problem went...
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  • computers often using 36 bit words and 6-bit character sets, sometimes implemented as extensions of BCD, were the norm. There were also 18-bit teletypes...
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    Run-length encoding (RLE) of initial data. Burrows–Wheeler transform (BWT), or block sorting. Move-to-front (MTF) transform. Run-length encoding (RLE) of...
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    numbers without a "tail", where "x" is the TTL logic family. For "A" to "F": BCD decoder ICs support various seven-segment fonts for their decoded output...
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    calculators do all their calculations in binary-coded decimal (BCD) rather than binary. BCD is common in electronic systems where a numeric value is to be...
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