Why can’t computers understand decimal number systems?

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Why can’t computers understand decimal number systems?

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There is something called binary coded decimal which used 4 bits to specify numbers 0-9, but math on them was a bit of a pain. Some older CPUs had instructions to handle that math (x86 still have them, but they are disabled in 64-bit mode).

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