Folks:
Some of you must know the answer to this. I'm working with an arbitrary
precision library, and the fellow who wrote it is storing values in an
array of characters. Within each "character" is essentially a binary
number from 0 - 99. This is a C library, so if you had a number like 57
and you wanted to store it (and assuming you had the number as a string)
you'd store it like:
nstr = "57";
ch = nstr[0] - '0';
number = 10 * ch + nstr[1] - '0';
Okay, now after all the explanation, what is this storage format
*called*? It's not BCD, and it's not packed decimal. I'd like to know
what it's called, so I can look up references on it.
Paul
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