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This is an assumption on your part which is incorrect.



Or you made an assumption on your own that was wrong and all your other math based on that assumption is also wrong.


If you wanted to know the width of each display you could have just asked without making accusations. Each 7 segment display is just under 1/2" wide. And as I explained before, the three digit month display was not originally made up of LEDs but was a back lit gel. With a modern 14 segment, 3 character display you can get close to what is seen on screen, but no accurate displays exist, or can possibly exist based on some of the characters seen on screen, IE the "V" character in "NOV" is not possible to make on an actual 14 segment LED display.

I have on hand a number of 0.8 inch displays, and here is a diagram for a typical 0.8 inch 7 segment display:

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27.7 X 20 MM.

11 MM character width at a slant. Use trig to find the actual width and you get ~0.574 inch character width.

It's not even close. Even if you somehow slimmed these down from 20 MM to remove the edges and had no space between any of the digits (which is not accurate), it would be ~7.463 inches. That's just way off when you include all the spaces.