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‘A decimal can be binary.’

[⟨det decimal.n⟩ binary.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

A message may refer to an order, but not to a session; to a user, but not to a service; to a business transaction, but not to an ACID transaction; to an amount in some currency, but not to a float or a BCD (binary coded decimal).
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Working on a project proposal (teaching people who are new to networking how to convert binary decimal).
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In July 1953, a 100 – word expansion core memory was added to the system, using binary coded decimal, excess – 3 number representation.
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Apart from this, the 8087 offered an 80 – bit / 18 – digit packed BCD (binary coded decimal) format and 16, 32 and 64 – bit integer data types.
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Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC) is the IBM mainframe counterpart of American Standard Code For Interchange of Information (ASCII).
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

This is used for BCD (binary coded decimal) arithmetic, where each byte contains 2 decimal digits (0 – 9) encoded in 4 bits each.
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Such machines often used binary coded decimal for numbers.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

DESCRIPTION: The DS1307 is a low powerful binary coded decimal (BCD) clock / calendar plus 56 bytes of NV SRAM.
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The committee considered an eight – bit code, since eight bits would allow two four – bit patterns to efficiently encode two digits with binary coded decimal.
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Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code’ “(“’EBCDIC ’”) is an 8 – bit character encoding (code page) used on IBM mainframe operating systems such as OS, 390, VM and VSE, as well as IBM midrange computer operating systems such as 400 and OS (see also Binary Coded Decimal).
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With the MCP – 1 the user selected the frequencies they wanted to monitor by setting them up using binary coded decimal entered via sixteen switches on the front panel.
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Usually, counter circuits are digital in nature, and count in binary, or sometimes binary coded decimal.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

You can see that the data itself ought to be sent in Binary Coded Decimal (?
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Queried on 2013-05-19.