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Computer operating on base-10 numbers
A decimal computer is a computer that represents and operates on numbers and addresses in decimal format – instead of binary as is common in most modern computers. Some decimal computers had a variable word length, which enabled operations on relatively large numbers. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Decimal computerA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Decimal Versus Binary Representation of Numbers in ComputersInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Mezinárodní desetinné tříděníThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Accurate arithmetic results for decimal data on non-decimal computersCited 7 times
- Go sideways: Binary-coded decimalA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Intel BCD opcodesA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Accurate arithmetic results for decimal data on non-decimal computers
Pracniques: simulation of Boolean functions in a decimal computer
Programmed error correction on a decimal computer
A Full Decimal Method of Address Assignment for Networked Computer
Simulation of a decimal computer on the ?MIR? computer
Tables for decimal age conversion by computer*
Enhancing an LSI computer to handle decimal data
Computer support for diagnostic teaching – the case of decimal numbers
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Mezinárodní desetinné tříděníÚstředí vědeckých, technických a ekonomických informací. · 1974
- 📕Modern approaches to the management of a classificatonRobert R. Freeman · 1966
DDC, Dewey decimal classificationMelvil Dewey · 1980
Continued-product algorithms for division, logarithm, exponential and square root in radix tenCatherine Yuk-Fun Chow · 1978- 📕Dewey decimal classification, DDCMelvil Dewey · 1986
- 📕Dewey for Windows guideJulianne Beall · 1998
- 📕Uniwersalna klasyfikacja dziesiętnaInternational Federation for Documentation · 1971
Advanced machine code programming for the Commodore 64A. P. Stephenson · 1984
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