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BCD

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BCD is extensively used on IBM midrange and mainframe systems. Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC) is a character encoding based on BCD used as an alternative to ASCII.
BCD is also used in some accounting programs, to avoid errors that can be introduced through the use of floating-point math.  Some microcomputer CPUs, such as the [[6502]], support a BCD math mode.

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