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BCD (binary-coded decimal), also called alphanumeric BCD, alphameric BCD, BCD Interchange Code, or BCDIC, is a family of representations of numerals, uppercase Latin letters, and some special and control characters as six-bit character codes.
Characters & History
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BCD (character encoding) | Classification | 6-bit alphanumeric basic Latin encodings | 1.00 | infobox |
| BCD (character encoding) | Succeeded by | EBCDIC | 1.00 | infobox |
| ASCII | instance of | and some special and control characters as six-bit character codes.Unlike later encodings | 0.80 | text |
| BCD codes were not standardized | instance of | and some special and control characters as six-bit character codes.Unlike later encodings | 0.80 | text |
| the IBM 1401 | instance of | it is a flag bit used to mark the end of a word on some variable word length computers | 0.80 | text |
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