There's huge language barrier that separate humans from computers. Sure some people,like student like yourself,can go in and measure voltages and certain points to see what's going on, but to most people this isn't possible. How can computers communicate with people? A popular from of communication is the 7-segment LED. You've seen them on stereos,VCR's,clock,everywhere. This visual display communicate information from the computer to a person,tranforming 1's and 0's into decimal numbers.
The purpose of this experiment is to demonstate understanding of the idea of place value on the BCD (binary coded decimal) to 7-Segment dislay