In computers, a serial decimal numeric representation is one in which ten
bit
The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communications. The name is a portmanteau of binary digit. The bit represents a logical state with one of two possible values. These values are most commonly represente ...
s are reserved for each digit, with a different bit turned on depending on which of the ten possible digits is intended.
ENIAC
ENIAC (; Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945. There were other computers that had these features, but the ENIAC had all of them in one pac ...
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CALDIC used this representation.
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See also
*Bit-serial architecture
In digital logic applications, bit-serial architectures send data one bit at a time, along a single wire, in contrast to bit-parallel word architectures, in which data values are sent all bits or a word at once along a group of wires.
All di ...
* Digit-serial architecture
* 1-of-10 code
* One-hot code
References
Computer arithmetic
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