MRAB wrote:
Later processors have a DAS instruction, which is used after BCD
subtraction.
The humble 6502 doesn't have DAA/DAS, but instead has a decimal mode flag.
The 68000 also had a Decimal Add instruction, but disappointingly
it only worked a byte at a time. I guess running COBOL at high
On 2018-12-12 18:59, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 00:46:03 -0500, "Avi Gross"
declaimed the following:
All kidding aside, I note that some data that is stored in a fixed width has
zeroes padding it all the way to the right. If you store the number 3 in binary
as a byte, it t
Joe,
All numbers start with zero, and even an infinite number of them! LOL!
All kidding aside, I note that some data that is stored in a fixed width has
zeroes padding it all the way to the right. If you store the number 3 in binary
as a byte, it tends to look like 0011. Depending on how in
