EBCDIC

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English

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Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɛbsəˌdɪk/, /ˈɛbsɪdɪk/, (less common) /ˈɛbkəˌdɪk/
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Proper noun

EBCDIC

  1. (computing) Acronym of Extended Binary-Coded-Decimal Interchange Code, an 8-bit character set and encoding representing 256 alphanumeric and special characters, devised by and used primarily by IBM.
    • 1989, D. Russell, The Principles of Computer Networking, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 218:
      Thus, to translate an EBCDIC message into an ASCII one we need a table with 256 one-byte entries. In each position we put the ASCII code that corresponds to that EBCDIC entry.

Derived terms

  • BCD (“Binary-Coded-Decimal”)

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