Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language has variable types for three different kinds of numbers: integer, floating-point and decimal. Integer variables range from a short 2-byte format to a long ...
In addition to its basic spreadsheet functions, Microsoft Excel also allows writing formulas to perform functions on existing data. Using a quick equation, you can convert an existing set of time data ...
Editor's Note: This is the first article in a two-part series on decimal representations and decimal arithmetic in general, and on Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) in particular. In this first installment, ...