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Refinedcode and Nineteengiraffe's redstone binary to bcd unit possibly smallest ever.

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Just a heads up this is probably boring to most people even those who enjoy redstone.

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Me and Nineteengiraffes have created this logic unit which is a building block in a binary to binary coded decimal decoder which uses the Double Dabble algorithm. If you take a look at some of the other binary to binary coded decimal redstone videos, most of them use the hellbringa96 design which is 11x24x11, our unit is 12x14x7. Nineteengiraffes is awesome at compacting circuits. The unit's job is to take in a 4 bit number as its input. If that number is greater than 4, it needs to output that number + 3 . Otherwise, it just outputs the original. This means our unit contains a 4 bit full adder, along with a 4 bit multiplexer. Its really amazing how small it is. Here it is compared to the more popular unit that most people use:
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The way you use these units in a full binary to BCD decoder is outlined in this schematic:
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The boxes are the units that we made. We have made a full 8 bit decoder on our land in creative, but its a bit messy to post here and its being used for another thing that we are almost done. I just thought Someone might find this interesting if you have ever seen this type of unit before. The schematic for it will be going to minecraftforums as many people are having troubles with the hellbringa96 unit as I think it broke in 1.0.0.

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Please no binary. I learned how to convert to different bases and do not wish to return to it in any way.
 
Be sure to slap a MCA URL somewhere in the schematic if you post it to minecraft.net
 
If I understood what was going I would say keep it up but keep it up I guess.
 
The display is already there... it was built before the decoder. For the most part the whole thing is working atm.
 
Really nice work guys, be sure to drop a link to the Minecraft Forums thread in here when you post it up! Even though I have no idea how it works, these volume comparisons make for impressive reading:

hellbringa96 version: 2904m³
Refined & Nineteen's version: 1176m³
 
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