Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] (no subject)

[Boris K. <BKo...@ge...>]

I think BCD stands for binary coded decimal and the IBM implementation produces a binary number aligned to some boundary (byte, word, &c).  It is not a packed format.

As an aside BCD is part of EBCDIC: Extended Binary Coded ...

Of course I could be all wet.

>>> Fred Mobach <fr...@mo...> 12/14/99 12:00PM >>>
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A less common format was the BCD format. The difference with the packed
decimal format is the absence of the sign nibble. So a BCD format
numeric field of n bytes contains 2*n numeric positions, where a field
with packed decimal format of n bytes contains 2*n-1 numeric positions.
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