> > He won't have to convert the values if he uses the 74595 either. You missed that he > > wants to do it as an exercise in driving an external shift register. It makes a bit > > more sense now. > > That's fine, but he needs to stop claiming he's going all perpetual motion machine to > avoid having to convert the values then, because no conversion is necessary to drive > the display right off the GPIOs.
I never said conversion was necessary for running of the GPIO but was necessary for the 4511 7-Segment driver which requires 4-bit BCD input and just due to the way the system was setup I wanted/needed to convert it to an integer value.
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