In fact the full Cobol declaration is <B>S9(9)V99 Comp-3</B><BR><BR>I understand this to be pretty much a packed decimal (specialized binary coded decimal).<BR><BR>What I need to do is to write a ...

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, ...

Of course, there’s no reason we can’t just store decimal digits. That’s call binary coded decimal or BCD and that has some advantages, too. It is pretty easy to do math on BCD numbers and ...