Ldanielrosa, Thanks for the info. I guess I should describe my project a bit more. I'm using a basic stamp 1 that only does integer math and is very limited in memory, so I need my hardware to do the work. My base unit for the decimal or base ten clock will be 1/100000 of a day which is 8.64 seconds. With the 100Hz resonator I can count 864 cycles and have my 1/10000 of a day. The display will either be an LCD or 7 segment LEDs and look like 5.000 for noon (0.000 for midnight). I guess the equation to figure on the ripple counter is frequency wanted = frequency of the resonator/2n I guess 2n is determined by which pin on the ripple counter you use as an output (which I still need to figure out). Thanks again! JCBarber