And all things considered, a binary display for a thermometer like [Clovis Fritzen]’s is much simpler to decode than, say, a clock.

In this circuit, the MC14553B controls the most significant (leftmost) value of the thermometer display. Lastly, the HEF4511B BCD to 7-segment BCD decoder is coupled to the MC14553BCP 7-segment ...

For a typical case of 8 bit resolution, the measured integral non-linearity (INL) is between ± 0.05 LSB and the measured differential non-linearity (DNL) lies between -0.06 and 0.01 LSB providing 7.9 ...