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, ...

If you ask engineers how numbers are represented, stored and manipulated in computers and calculators, most will reply “as signed or unsigned binary integers” or “as fixed-point or floating-point ...

Embedded C and C++ programmers are familiar with signed and unsigned integers and floating-point values of various sizes, but a number of numerical formats can be used in embedded applications. Here ...