Many Microsoft Excel sheets store date and time values. Sometimes the two values appear in the same cell, and sometimes they do not. If you work with dates and/or times, you need a good understanding ...

Formatting decimals displays values with the specified number of trailing decimal values in your Web pages. Decimal formatting in JSP is typically used for money values, but you can use the formatting ...

It seems like an elementary thing but dealing with numbers beyond whole integers in software is tricky. Differences between rounding in code vs rounding in database storage can catch you off guard if ...

Here's a C/C++ program that converts decimal numbers ranging from 0 to 99,999 to binary and BCD formats. Using a simple algorithm in conjunction with pointer ...

In this article, I'm covering something that's a little abstruse: converting numeric bases within shell scripts. There are really four commonly used numeric bases to consider: binary, octal, decimal ...

contains only numbers, and sometimes a decimal point and/or minus sign. When they are read into a SAS data set, numeric values are stored in the floating-point format native to the operating ...