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From: Peter Pearson <ppearson@nowhere.invalid>
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Subject: Re: problem with bcd and a number
Date: 5 Aug 2011 16:01:48 GMT
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On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:52:45 +0200, Christoph Hansen <ch@radamanthys.de> wrote:
> MRAB schrieb:
>
>> The value is MSB * 100 + (LSB>>  4) * 10 + (LSB&  0xF)
>
> i would say
>
> (MSB >> 4)*100 + (MSB & 0xF)*10 + (LSB >> 4)
>
> but who knows

I concur.  I think the documentation is trying to say that the
low-order nibble of the LSB is garbage.

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