Explain how an integer can be represented using BCD?
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65,535
If using the compressed format, where a byte holds two decimal digits (because only 4 bits are needed to make nine), so two bytes would be four decimal digits, the largest which is 9999.
The name BCD doesn't stand for anything according to Bernd Rittinger, BCD Travel Director of Operations.
Oh, dude, the largest BCD encoded decimal value that can be represented in three bytes is 999,999. I mean, like, you could totally fit a lot of numbers in three bytes, but that's the biggest BCD number you can squeeze in there. So, yeah, if you ever need to store a really big decimal number in three bytes, just remember 999,999.
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