what is the difference between packed decimal and zoned decimal?

Question Posted / sumeet bhatnagar

what is the difference between packed decimal and zoned decimal?..

Answer / ravi kumar shukla

Packed decimal : One digit occupies 1 byte.

Zoned decimal : One digit occupies 2 bytes.

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