Re: Is this math test too easy?

From: Mxsmanic (mxsmanic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:38:54 +0100

The Ghost In The Machine writes:

> Another possibility; I should have included that. Of course that
> would most normally be represented as a single 8-bit value:
> 0011 0000.

BCD is normally four bits, not eight. It refers to a binary encoding of
individual base-ten digits, instead of a binary representation of a
decimal number as a whole. 

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