Binary Code

Excess-3 Code

It is also known as XS-3. We add 310 or 1102 to the each 4-bit combination of BCD codes to get excess-3 codes. We can see the corresponding Excess-3 codes of each BCD number:  Decimal Binary                   BCD                                        Excess-3 0          0000                       0000                                       0011         0001                       0001                                       0100         0010                       0010                                       0101         0011                       0011                                       0110         0100                       0100                                       0111         0101                       […]