Bi-quinary coded decimal

Bi-quinary coded decimal

Bi-quinary coded decimal is a numeral encoding scheme used in many abacuses and in some early computers, including the Colossus. The term "bi-quinary" indicates that the code comprises both a two-state ("bi") and a five-state ("quin"ary) component. The encoding resembles that used by many abaci, one bead indicating 0..4 or 5..9 and 4 beads indicating which of those ranges.

Decoding

To decode the Biquinary code use the number 5043210.

At each digit multiply the biquinary number by the number 5043210. This will give you the decimal number.

For example take the number 0110000.To change this into Decimal: (5 * 0) + (0 * 1) + (4 * 1) + (3 * 0) + (2 * 0) + (1 * 0) + (0 * 0) = 4

Examples

Several different representations of bi-quinary coded decimal have been used by different machines. The two-state component is encoded as one or two bits, and the five-state component is encoded using three to five bits. Some examples are:

*IBM 650 – 7 bits (two ‘bi’ bits: 0 5 and five ‘quinary’ bits: 0 1 2 3 4) with error checking (exactly one ‘bi’ bit and one ‘quinary’ bit set in a valid digit); in the picture of the front panel below, the bi-quinary encoding of the internal workings of the machine are evident in the arrangement of the lights – the 'bi' bits form the top of a T for each digit, and the 'quinary' bits form the vertical stem (the machine was running when the photograph was taken and the active bits are just discernible)

*Univac LARC – 4 bits (one ‘bi’ bit: 5 and three ring counter coded ‘quinary’ bits) with 1 parity check bit

See also

* chisanbop
*Binary
*Binary-coded decimal


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