Nine-segment display

<p>In some Soviet digital calculators of the 1970s, such as the <a href="/facts/Elektronika/28yCnWts">Elektronika</a> 4-71b, 9-segment displays were used to provide basic alphanumerics and avoid confusions with representing numbers in <a href="/facts/Postal_codes_in_Russia/WeX1EvjM">Soviet postcodes</a>.
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<p>The extra two bars were slanted forward, allowing for an appropriate-looking <a href="/facts/I_(Cyrillic)/77daDjyw">И</a>, and to differentiate the numeral 3 
from <a href="/facts/Ze_(Cyrillic)/WQGxJ272">the letter З</a>. The <a href="/facts/Sharp_Corporation/IbmkAjKB">Sharp</a> Compet calculator also uses a 9-segment display, allowing a small range of characters and symbols to be used.
</p><p>Nine-segment displays are used in many <a href="/facts/Timex_Group_USA/kqNvb7NP">Timex</a> <a href="/facts/Digital_watch/PuFUMNTl">digital watches</a>, and some <a href="/facts/Pager/aBeT40yG">pagers</a>, such as the Nixxo XPage,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> the Arch BR502 pager,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> and the Scope Geo N8T.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> They are also used in some Epson Stylus printers, and Newport iSeries digital meters.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> The display used in the iSeries is unique in that it has a vertical extra segment at top, and a fully backwards-leaning slant for the extra segment at bottom. This allows for a somewhat more natural-appearing R and M.
</p><p>A nine-segment display has been developed for displaying <a href="/facts/Bengali_numerals/ITce8AvL">Bengali</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> and <a href="/facts/Roman_numerals/7BA8nn78">Roman</a> <a href="/facts/Numeral_system/1KKlG4nd">numerals</a>.
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<ul><li><a href="/facts/Seven-segment_display/4rzfu0q0">Seven-segment display</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Eight-segment_display/AnFznq4e">Eight-segment display</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Fourteen-segment_display/PfteYoCd">Fourteen-segment display</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Sixteen-segment_display/n3EtQ5rv">Sixteen-segment display</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Dot_matrix_display/1PAS4Ix9">Dot matrix display</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Nixie_tube/uAf9NEjd">Nixie tube</a> display</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Vacuum_fluorescent_display/70BmkStl">Vacuum fluorescent display</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>

<ul><li> Media related to Nine segment displays at Wikimedia Commons</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Primus" (PDF). Primus Ontario English. <a href="http://www.primustel.ca/en/residential/paging/en_xpage.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.primustel.ca/en/residential/paging/en_xpage.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"Br502 Numeric Pager" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-04-13. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070413060226/http://content.arch.com/products/datasheets/DataSheetbr502.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20070413060226/http://content.arch.com/products/datasheets/DataSheetbr502.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>"GEO N8T" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-29. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070929200255/http://www.sensorium.co.uk/datasheets/paging/geo_n8t.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20070929200255/http://www.sensorium.co.uk/datasheets/paging/geo_n8t.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>⁄32 DIN Temperature, Process and Strain PID Controllers (PDF), archived from the original on October 25, 2005 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051025171037/http://www.newportus.com/PDFspecs/i32.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20051025171037/http://www.newportus.com/PDFspecs/i32.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Miah, Mohammad Badrul Alam; et al. (2015-01-01). "Designing More Effective 9 Segment Display for Bengali and English Digits". Engineering International. <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329778175" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329778175</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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