Answer to Question #344663 in Discrete Mathematics for mike

Question

a) How many bytes are required to represent the decimal number -6357 in the EBCDIC packed decimal format?

Answer 1

EBCDIC uses a unique eight-bit binary code for each number and alphabetic character as well as punctuation marks and accented letters and nonalphabetic characters. Therefore, "-6357" will be stored as five 8-bit values. The answer is 40.