[Tutor] Fwd: how to see a number as two bytes

[shawn bright]

thanks, Luke,
got me started anyway.
shawn

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Luke Paireepinart
<rabidpoobear at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure if those values are correct;  I can check later tonight,
> but I'm doing some statechart diagrams for class right now.  They
> sound reasonable but I can't be sure.
>
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:20 AM, shawn bright <nephish at gmail.com> wrote:
>> jeez, i screwed up, i ment num = 600, not 6
>> thanks
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Luke Paireepinart
>> <rabidpoobear at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> No, I'm not sure what you mean.
>>> Given this number
>>>
>>> 100101010101101011
>>>
>>> the operation will slice off bits on the left with the % 2**16 so that
>>> we only have 16 bits,
>>> 0101010101101011
>>> then it will shift this value to the right so that we only have the
>>> highest 8 bits
>>> 01010101
>>> that will be stored in high.
>>> Then it will slice off the bits on the left with the 2**8 so that we
>>> only have 8 bits left,
>>> 01101011
>>> and that is your low value.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:04 AM, shawn bright <nephish at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> so using this, if num ==6, then i should get 2 and 88 ?
>>>> thanks, just checking to make sure i get what you wrote.
>>>> shawn
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Luke Paireepinart
>>>> <rabidpoobear at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>> From: Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoobear at gmail.com>
>>>>> Date: Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:00 AM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Tutor] how to see a number as two bytes
>>>>> To: shawn bright <nephish at gmail.com>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> high, low = ((num % 2**16) >> 8, num % 2**8)  or something thereabouts.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:47 AM, shawn bright <nephish at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> hey there all,
>>>>>> i have a script that needs to send a number as two bytes.
>>>>>> how would i be able to see a number expressed as a hi byte and a lo byte?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> thanks
>>>>>> shawn
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