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{{Short description|Variable wordlength decimal computer announced by IBM in 1960}} The '''IBM 1410''', a member of the [[IBM 1400 series]], was a [[decimal computer]] with a variable [[word (computer architecture)|word length]] tha ...

In computers, a '''serial decimal''' numeric representation is one in which ten [[bit]]s are reserved for eac ...

...al number]]. Because the real numbers are not [[Countable set|countable]], computers cannot represent them exactly using a finite amount of information. Most of ==Decimal numbers== ...

...ort description|In mathematics, limiting the number of digits right of the decimal point}} ...ion''' is limiting the number of [[numerical digit|digit]]s right of the [[decimal point]]. ...

...ee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=5222083 ''IRE Transactions on Electronic Computers'' 1] (March 1958), p. 65</ref> first delivered in 1959,<ref>{{Cite book|url ...gory:Early computers]] not needed; transistorized... is a subcat of early computers --> ...

...[[milli]][[volt]]s and +50 millivolts and converted them into signed, four decimal digit numbers that were stored in the 1710s [[core memory]]. ...s a 4 digit number. On the 1711's control panel, there was a bank of seven decimal digit manual entry switches that could be read by the computer. The 1711 al ...

...could be placed on a desktop. It used words of 20 bits corresponding to 6 decimal digits. The memory capacity was 6K words, corresponding to 15 kilobytes. Pr [[Category:One-of-a-kind computers]] ...

...The term "auto-point" referred to the ability to automatically adjust the decimal point in [[floating-point arithmetic]]. *[[List of vacuum-tube computers]] ...

* [[Bit]], or binary digit, the basic unit of information in computers * [[Binary-coded decimal]], a method for encoding for decimal digits in binary sequences ...

...nd the '''UNIVAC 120''' (1953). The model number referred to the number of decimal digits it could read from each punched card.<ref>According to ''Electronic Digits are represented in [[bi-quinary coded decimal]]. Each digit of memory storage contained five tubes. Four of these represe ...

{{Short description|Error-detection code for decimal digits}} ...possible combinations of two bits, and is thus used for representing the [[decimal digit]]s using five [[bit]]s.<ref name="MIL_1991"/> Each bit is assigned a ...

36-bit computers were popular in the early [[mainframe computer]] era from the 1950s through ...]], had a word length of ten digits, as did [[ENIAC]], one of the earliest computers. ...

...description|Efficient system of binary encoding for decimal digits used in decimal floating point}} ...icient method for BCD encoding|a simpler, but less efficient method|Packed decimal}} ...

...ted computers to many countries and in 1968 became part of [[International Computers Limited]] (ICL). ...and the [[Arithmetic logic unit|arithmetic unit]] had no binary mode, only decimal or pounds, shillings and pence. Its [[Clock signal|clock]] ran at 1&nbsp;MH ...

...ded decimal]] today. Numbers were read and processed serially, meaning one decimal digit at a time, but the four bits for the digit were read in parallel. The The Mark III used nine magnetic drums (one of the first computers to do so). One drum could contain 4,000 instructions and has an access time ...

...when using ten fingers to count up to 10.<ref name="footnote_bytes">Since computers typically store data in a minimum size of one whole byte, fractions of a by ...ts two to the second power (the "fours digit"); and so on. (The [[decimal|decimal number system]] is essentially the same, only that powers of ten are used: ...

...d-length (computer hardware)|variable word-length]] (one to 16 characters) decimal and binary computer. It was initially announced in May 1962 as an off-line ...many installations of both large "scientific computers and large "business computers". In these installations the big computer (e.g., a [[UNIVAC III]]) did all ...

...two from [[decimal]] [[1000 (number)|1000]] and [[senary]] 10000{{sub|6}} (decimal [[1296 (number)|1296]]). It is the 64th quarter square.<ref>{{Cite OEIS |A0 ...p>]] provides the basis of a technique of estimating larger powers of 2 in decimal notation. Using 2^{10''a''+''b''} ≈ 2^''b''10<sup>3''a''< ...

{{Short description|Mid-range business decimal computers}} ...siness [[decimal computer]]s that [[IBM]] marketed in the early 1960s. The computers were offered to replace [[tabulating machine]]s like the [[IBM 407]]. The 1 ...

[[CER Computers|CER]] ({{Langx|sr|Цифарски Електронски Рачунар}} – ''Digital Electronic Com ...dder]] supporting both [[Binary numeral system|binary]] and [[Binary-coded decimal|BCD]] addition (same unit is used for [[subtraction]], [[multiplication]] a ...