[sdiy] Why are 7-segment LED displays oblique?

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My stove has this. It's horrible looking. :)

On 4/7/2018 1:46 PM, Oren Leavitt wrote:
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> On 4/7/18 10:00 AM, Vladimir Pantelic wrote:
>> my guess is it's in order to have the digits closer together and still 
>> fit the dot inbetween. think of the dot! :)
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> If you flip a subsequent digit unit upside down, it's dot will be above 
> the dot of the previous digit. You a colon separator for a time display.
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