The 19-digit word was stored on the card stock tape or registers in binary coded decimal, resulting in 76 bits, with two extra bits for indicating positive or negative sign and parity, while the two side rows were used for sprockets.
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In " Benson ", the claim was to a data processing method for converting binary coded decimal number representations into binary number representations . One claim mentioned a reentrant shift register and the other claim mentioned no apparatus at all.
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In " Benson ", the claim is to a data processing method for converting binary coded decimal number representations into binary number representations . One claim mentions a reentrant shift register and the other claim mentions no apparatus at all.
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He calls these new characters bigits, an abbreviation for Bemer digits that rhymes with digits . ( While Bemer generally works with a less-common system known as EBCDIC, an acronym for Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code, the principle can still be used here .)
