On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Christopher Cole wrote:

> Josh Koffman wrote:
> > Hi all. I'm thinking of a project where I'll have a 9 bit
> > binary number, and I'll want to display it on a 3 digit
> > 7 segment display. To do this I'll need to extract the
> > hundreds, tens, and ones digits from the number...
> 
> For this, I would use the "Shift and Add-3 Algorithm" to do the conversion you need:
> 
> http://www.engr.udayton.edu/faculty/jloomis/ece314/notes/devices/binary_to_BCD/bin_to_BCD.html
> 

Seriously?!

I'm curious, how would you efficiently compare each BCD digit (of a 3 
digit packed BCD number) to 5 after each shift on a PIC?

Regards
Sergio Masci
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