So why do you want the pattern you showed to display 5.2 and not 5.1999631?Ok let's say it should display the decimal equivalent to the IEEE754 standard 32 bit floating point binary number.
Then you are going to need twelve seven-segment displays. One for the overall sign, eight for the mantissa, one for the sign of the exponent, and two for the exponent.Thanks WBahn.
I do not want it to display to 2 significant places (this was a mis-statement on my part) I want it to display to the number of places that are possible for a IEEE754 32 bit floating point number. This is reasonably straight forward to code into C or python or VBA but designing a circuit to do it seems much more challenging.
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