Hi Amoque,
If he wants the Decimal number he will run into a problem at 65535 as that completely fills a WORD variable, requiring the use of a LONG variable.
His OP didn't indicate this need, at least that's how I read it. Still ASCII can be the medium for transport, doing the MATH (dirty 4 letter word) after receiving the number. LCD isn't going to display actual numbers as the first 47 are commands and symbols dating back to RTTY for which ASCII was invented, and that is what LCDs display (ASCII)