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Up to now, we have only considered the binary representation of numbers in the Z80 microprocessor, and arithmetic has involved signed and unsigned binary numbers. However, the Z80 microprocessor caters for another representation of numbers — Binary Coded Decimal, or BCD for short.
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© 1981 Roger Hutty
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Hutty, R. (1981). Decimal arithmetic. In: Z80 Assembly Language Programming for Students. Macmillan Computer Science Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06155-6_15
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