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The NATO phonetic alphabet represents E as Echo. In international Morse code the letter E is dit, · In Braille the letter E is represented as ⠑ (in Unicode), with the dot pattern, The International maritime signal flag for E is, E - Computing. In Unicode the capital E is codepoint U+0045 and the lowercase e is U+0065. The ASCII code for capital E is 69 ...

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In English, F represents the voiceless labiodental fricative ([f] in IPA), although in certain words, such as "of", it can be a voiced labiodental fricative ([v] in IPA). The digraph "ff", pronounced [f], is often used at the end of words (and, in rare personal or placenames, at the beginning). Both initial and final F are commonly us ...

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The letter D generally takes the voiced alveolar plosive value, IPA /d/ in most languages that use the Roman alphabet, including English. In Welsh d when doubled (dd) has the value /ð/, like English th in this. Digraphs of D are rare in English, although other languages use DH or DD for a voiced dental fricative (some Celtic languages) or an aspirated voiced dental plosive (some Indo-Aryan languages), or use ...

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Computing - Numeric data. integral data types - bit, byte, etc. real data types: Floating point (Single precision, Double precision, etc.) Fixed point Rational number Decimal Binary-coded decimal (BCD) Excess-3 BCD (XS-3) Biquinary-coded decimal representation: Binary - Octal - Decimal - Hexadecimal (hex) Computer mathematics - C ...

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Bravo represents the letter B in the NATO phonetic alphabet. In international Morse code the letter B is DahDitDitDit: - · · · In Braille the letter B is represented as ⠃ (in Unicode), the dot pattern, X. X. .. B - Computing. In Unicode the capital B is codepoint U+0042 and the lowercase b is U+0062. The ASCII code for capital B is 66 and for lowercase b is 98; or in binary 01000010 and 01100010, correspondingly. The EBCDIC code ...

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Charlie represents the letter C in the NATO phonetic alphabet. In international Morse code the letter C is DahDitDahDit: - · - · In Braille the letter C is represented as ⠉ (in Unicode), the dot pattern, XX .. .. C - Computing. In Unicode the capital C is codepoint U+0043 and the lowercase c is U+0063. The ASCII code for capital C is 67 and for lowercase c is 99; or in binary 01000011 and 01100011, respectively. See also:

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The NATO phonetic alphabet represents F as Foxtrot. In international Morse code the letter F is dit dit dah dit, ··-· In Braille the letter F is represented as ⠋ (in Unicode), with the dot pattern, The International maritime signal flag for F is, F - Computing. In Unicode the capital F is codepoint U+0046 and the lowercase f is U+0066. The ASCII code for capital F is 70 and for lowercase f is 102; or ...

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In English, the letter can be pronounced as a "soft G" (IPA /dʒ/), as in: giant, ginger, geology, or as a "hard G" (IPA /g/), as in: goose, gargoyle, game. In some words of French origin, as in French generally, the "soft G" is pronounced as IPA /ʒ/, as in rouge, beige, and genre. Generally, G is soft before E, I, and ...

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See also the Embedded systems section, below. List of IBM products - Keypunches and verifiers. IBM 001 — Mechanical punch IBM 002 — Port-a-punch IBM 011 — Electric punch IBM 012 — Duplicating punch IBM 015 — Motorized punch IBM 016 — Electric duplicating punch key punch IBM 024 — Electronic (tube) punch non-printing IBM 026 — Electronic (tube) punch printing, BCD zone codes IBM 029 — Electric punch printi ...

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List of IBM products - Computers based on vacuum tubes 1950s. IBM 305 — RAMAC — Random Access Method of Accounting and Control; 1956 IBM 610 — Auto-Point Computer; 1957 IBM 650 — Business Magnetic Drum Data Processing Machine; 1954 IBM 701 — Defense Calculator; 1952 IBM 702 — Business Electronic Data Processing Machine; 1953 IBM 704 — Scientific Electronic Data Processing Machine; 1956 IBM 705 — Business ...

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List of IBM products - Bank and finance. IBM 2730 — Transaction validation terminal; 1971 IBM 2984 — Cash dispensing terminal; 1972 IBM 3600 — Finance Communication System; 1973 IBM 3624 — Automatic teller machine (ATM) IBM 3670 — Brokerage communications system; 1971 IBM 3895 — Deposit processing system; 1978 IBM 4370 — Personal banking machine; 1983 IBM 4372 — Personal banking machine; 1987 I ...

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The NATO phonetic alphabet represents H as Hotel. To ensure compatibility with those languages in which H is silent, 'Hotel' is officially pronounced [otel], with a silent H. In international Morse code the letter H is dit dit dit dit, ···· In Braille the letter H is represented as ⠋ (in Unicode), with the dot pattern, The International maritime signal flag for H is, H - Computing. In Unicode the capital H i ...

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In the German language, the name of the letter is pronounced /haː/. In the German language, this letter is used in the digraph "ch" and the trigraph "sch" to indicate completely different sounds. Following a vowel, it often silently indicates that the vowel is long: In the word "erhöhen", only the first <h> is pronounced as /h/. This is the origin of the spelling (or pronunciation) of the English ejaculation "Eh?" which is not at all like an Eng ...

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The NATO phonetic alphabet represents G as Golf. In international Morse code the letter G is dah dah dit, --· In Braille the letter G is represented as ⠛ (in Unicode), with the dot pattern, The International maritime signal flag for G is, G - Computing. In Unicode the capital G is codepoint U+0047 and the lowercase g is U+0067. The ASCII code for capital G is 71 and for lowercase g is 103; or ...

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In the French language, the name of the letter is pronounced /aʃ/. The French language classifies words that begin with this letter in two ways that must be learned to use French properly, even though it is a silent letter either way. The h muet, or "mute h", is considered as though the letter were not there at all, so masculine nouns get the article le replaced by the sequence l'. Similarly, words such as un, whose pronunciation would elide onto the following word would ...

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In English and most other languages that use the Latin alphabet, the letter b denotes the voiced bilabial plosive (IPA /b/), as in bib. In English it is sometimes "silent", as in debt or comb. In medial position in Spanish it denotes the voiced bilabial fricative (IPA /β/). In Estonian, Icelandic, and in Chinese transcription, B is not voiced, but is still contrasted to P, which is a geminate See also:

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The modern lowercase letter b derives from later Roman times, when scribes began omitting the upper loop of the capital. The letter B should not be confused with the visually similar German ß. ...

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Binary files, in contrast, may contain any data whatsoever (including plain text, since binary file is a more general concept). Binary files typically contain bytes that are intended to be interpreted as something other than characters. Compiled computer programs are typical examples, as the data and CPU instructions they contain can — in principle — be any binary value. As a result, compiled applications (object files) are sometimes referred to as binaries. But binary files can also be image files, sound files, comp ...

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Computer scientists sometimes overload the term character encoding to mean also how a specific sequence of bits represent characters. This involves an encoding form which specifies the conversion of the integer code into a series of integer code values that facilitate storage in a system that uses fixed bit widths. For example, integers greater than 65535 ( hex FFFF) will not fit in 16 bits, so the UTF-16 encoding form mandates representation of these integers as a surrogate pair of integers, each less than 65536 ...

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Binary-coded decimal - Advantages. Scaling by a factor of 10 (or a power of 10) is simple, this is useful when a decimal scaling factor is needed to represent a non-integer quantity (e.g., in financial calculations where it is required that a computer gets the same result that a human would). Conversion to a character form or for display (e.g., to a character encoding such as XML, or to drive signals for a 7 segment display) is a simple per-digit mapping (conversion from pure binary involves relatively complex logic that spans digits, and get ...

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The binary-coded decimal scheme described in this article is the most common encoding, but there are many others. For clarity the method here can be referred to as Simple Binary-Coded Decimal (SBCD) or BCD 8421.It is also sometimes named NBCD(Naturally Binary-Coded Decimal). The 8421 word indicates the bit weights in the byte. The following table represents decimal digits from 0 to 9 ...

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BCD is very common in electronic systems where a numeric value is to be displayed, especially in systems consisting solely of digital logic, and not containing a microprocessor. By utilising BCD, the manipulation of numerical data for display can be greatly simplified by treating each digit as a separate single sub-circuit. This matches much more closely the physical reality of display hardware—a designer might choose to use a series of separate identical 7-segment displays to build a metering circuit, for example. If the numeric quantity ...

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