By thenths don=92t you mean inches/10? Or I miss understud the language? =


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who le number ? ? PICC


I thought it was 1200 inches, given 12000 was mentioned as was tenths so
that would be a max of 100 feet in tenths of inches.
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From: "Hulatt, Jon" <jhulatt@MONSTEREUROPE.COM>
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Subject: Re: [PIC]: How to Divide 16-Bit number by 12 and display just
who le number ? ? PICC


> Olin,
>
> You're misunderstanding the ambiguous wording of the OP. Read in
conjunction
> with the rest of his post, you can see than he means that each integer

> represents an inch, to a maximum bound of 12,000 inches.
>
> Jon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olin Lathrop
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Sent: 04/11/2003 12:32
> Subject: Re: [PIC]: How to Divide 16-Bit number by 12 and display just
whole
> number ? ? PICC
>
> Mccauley, Daniel H wrote:
> > In my application (which I'm using PICC C), I have a 16-Bit integer=20
> > register which has a range of 0 to 12000 is each number is one inch.
> >
> > For display on an LCD, I want to break up this number into the=20
> > following components:
> >
> > Feet, Inches, and Tenths of Inches
>
> Something isn't right since you can't ever have a whole foot in a 16=20
> bit integer if 12000 represents one inch.  The most you can get is=20
> 5.46 inches.
>
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