Embedded C and C++ programmers are familiar with signed and unsigned integers and floating-point values of various sizes, but a number of numerical formats can be used in embedded applications. Here ...

A signed integer is a bit used to represent the sign of the number. The left-most value in a binary number is called the most significant bit (MSB). It holds the highest place value and is the ‘sign’ ...

My last column introduced the concepts underlying BCD (binary-coded-decimal) representations. In particular, we considered unsigned versus 10s-complement versions of BCD numbers. In this column we are ...