One of the things I love to do is teach people about computers, especially how we can use them to represent and manipulate different types of numbers (I really need to get out more). For the purposes ...

My last column introduced the concepts underlying BCD (binary-coded-decimal) representations. In particular, we considered unsigned versus 10s-complement versions of BCD numbers. In this column we are ...

A byte is an ordered sequence of eight bits. The byte is the smallest addressable unit of memory in most architectures. Even if only a single bit is required, the memory system allocates at least one ...

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 ...