Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language has variable types for three different kinds of numbers: integer, floating-point and decimal. Integer variables range from a short 2-byte format to a long ...
Write the numbers in a vertical list, lining up the decimal points. If the numbers have a different amount of digits, there may be some gaps in the columns. Fill in any gaps with a zero so that each ...
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, ...