Computer Science Illuminated
Computer Science Illuminated
7th Edition
ISBN: 9781284155617
Author: Nell Dale, John Lewis
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
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Chapter 2, Problem 47E
Program Plan Intro

Bi-Quinary number:

  • It is a computer encoding that represents a decimal number with two separate fields that is based upon two and five.
  • Bi-quinary is split into two parts.
    • Bi means it contains two states. It is represented with base 2.
    • Quinary means it contains five states. It is represented with base 10.
  • A decimal number can be converted to bi-quinary by breaking it into two parts. First part consists of values from 0 to 4 and the other part indicates whether or not to add 5 to get the final value.

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