biquinaryadj.
Designating a type of code for use in computers or the like (see quot. 1962).
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biquinary1946
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1946 O. Cesareo in Bell Lab. Rec. 24 457/2 In bi-quinary notation, a digit is always represented by two numbers: a quinary part consisting of one of the digits 0 to 4 inclusive, and a binary part consisting of either 0 or 5.
1949 D. R. Hartree Calculating Instruments & Machines vii. 80 The machines work in a scale of ten, with number [sic] expressed in the so-called ‘bi-quinary’ system of coding decimal digits.
1962 Gloss. Terms Automatic Data Processing (B.S.I.) 21 Biquinary code, a code in which a decimal numeral n is represented by the pair of numbers a and b where: n = 5a + b in which a = 0 or 1 and b = 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4.
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