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I wonder if bi-quinary decimal influenced the later Packed Decimal (known as COMP-3 in COBOL), which stored numbers in just over half the space of the text equi
by DrScump 8y ago
I wonder if bi-quinary decimal influenced the later Packed Decimal (known as COMP-3 in COBOL), which stored numbers in just over half the space of the text equivalent (e.g. a 7-digit number would need 4 bytes).