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A two-out-of-five code is a constant-weight code that provides exactly ten possible combinations of two bits, and is thus used for representing the decimal digits using five bits. Each bit is assigned a weight, such that the set bits sum to the desired value, with an exception for zero.

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2 of 5 barcode (non-interleaved)

A two-out-of-five code is a constant-weight code that provides exactly ten possible combinations of two bits, and is thus used for representing the decimal digits using five bits.[1] Each bit is assigned a weight, such that the set bits sum to the desired value, with an exception for zero.

According to Federal Standard 1037C:

each decimal digit is represented by a binary numeral consisting of five bits of which two are of one kind, called ones , and three are of the other kind, called zeros , and , and three are of the other kind, called , and the usual weights assigned to the bit positions are 0-1-2-3-6. However, in this scheme, zero is encoded as binary 01100; strictly speaking the 0-1-2-3-6 previously claimed is just a mnemonic device.[2] The weights give a unique encoding for most digits, but allow two encodings for 3: 0+3 or 10010 and 1+2 or 01100. The former is used to encode the digit 3, and the latter is used to represent the otherwise unrepresentable zero. The IBM 7070, IBM 7072, and IBM 7074 computers used this code to represent each of the ten decimal digits in a machine word, although they numbered the bit positions 0-1-2-3-4, rather than with weights. Each word also had a sign flag, encoded using a two-out-of-three code, that could be A Alphanumeric, − Minus, or + Plus. When copied to a digit, the three bits were placed in bit positions 0-3-4. (Thus producing the numeric values 3, 6 and 9, respectively.) A variant is the United States Postal Service POSTNET barcode, used to represent the ZIP Code for automated mail sorting and routing equipment. This uses two tall bars as ones and three short bars as zeros. Here, the weights assigned to the bit positions are 7-4-2-1-0. Again, zero is encoded specially, using the 7+4 combination (binary 11000) that would naturally encode 11. This method was also used in North American telephone multi-frequency and crossbar switching systems.[3] The USPS Postal Alpha Numeric Encoding Technique (PLANET) uses the same weights, but with the opposite bar-height convention. The Code 39 barcode uses weights 1-2-4-7-0 (i.e. LSB first, Parity bit last) for the widths of its bars, but it also encodes two bits of extra information in the spacing between bars. The || ||| spacing is used for digits. The following table represents decimal digits from 0 to 9 in various two-out-of-five code systems:

Digit Telecommunication

01236 POSTNET

74210 PLANET Code39

bar widths

12470 1 11000 00011 ┃┃┃╻╻ ▮ | | | ▮ 2 10100 00101 ┃┃╻┃╻ | ▮ | | ▮ 3 10010 00110 ┃┃╻╻┃ ▮ ▮ | | | 4 ┃╻┃┃╻ | | ▮ | ▮ 5 00110 01010 ┃╻┃╻┃ ▮ | ▮ | | 6 10001 01100 ┃╻╻┃┃ | ▮ ▮ | | 7 ╻┃┃┃╻ | | | ▮ ▮ 8 00101 10010 ╻┃┃╻┃ ▮ | | ▮ | 9 00011 10100 ╻┃╻┃┃ | ▮ | ▮ | 0 ╻╻┃┃┃ | | ▮ ▮ | A 1––10 IBM 707x

Sign flags − 1––01 + 0––11 Digit 01234

IBM 707x

The limit on the number of bits set is similar to, but strictly stronger than, a parity check. All constant-weight codes, including the two-out-of-five code, can not only detect any single-bit error, but also detect any unidirectional errors -- any case where all errors in a codeword are of a single type (0→1 or 1→0).