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Archiver

Thank your Tracy. I did see the dig commands but I was concerened
the "1234" would be stored im the CPU's memory as the hex number 4D2.
Why is ANGLE an interger and not a HEX number?

Archiver

>Thank your Tracy. I did see the dig commands but I was concerened
>the "1234" would be stored im the CPU's memory as the hex number 4D2.
>Why is ANGLE an interger and not a HEX number?

The internal representation of the number 1234 inside the Stamp's
binary brain is
010011010010
If you divide that up into groups of 4 bits, you get
0100 1101 0010
4 D 2
So, yes, both answers are right. It is stored as a binary integer,
but it is also convenient to talk about it in shorthand as HEX.
x var word
x = 1234
debug HEX x,cr ' prints 4D2

debug DEC x,cr ' prints 1234

debug BIN x, cr ' prints 10011010010

for i=3 to 0 ' note the order
debug x dig i + 48
next ' also prints 1234, +48 converts to ascii numerals

Numbers can be shown in different bases upon output.

One thing you do have to worry about is BCD. It would be possible to
represent 1234 in the binary brain of the Stamp as:
0001 0010 0011 0100
1 2 3 4

x = $1234 ' BCD is like HEX without ABCDEF
debug HEX x ' prints 1234
debug DEC x ' prints 4660, no meaning really
debug BIN x ' prints 1001000110100
for i=3 to 0
debug x.nib0(i) + 48 ' different from the above
next ' also prints 1234

There are lots of ways to represent numbers in a computer memory.
The standard binary way is the most convenient for calculations.

-- Tracy