as in number
a character used to represent a mathematical value you only need to fill in the last two digits of the year in which you were born

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Recent Examples of digit Gold-mining stocks have soared by triple digits, and analysts suggest the rally may still be in its early stages. Benzinga, Freep.com, 18 Oct. 2025 Within a few weeks, a fully functional limb re-emerges, complete with digits and joints. Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025 Some of the industry’s trendiest products, after all, have price tags in the triple digits. Kiana Murden, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2025 As one of the 27 specified sub-areas the bank will be focusing on, quantum computing has seen gains as much as triple digits over the past month. Jaures Yip, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for digit
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Noun
  • The robbers struck in broad daylight, while the museum was open, and targeted a specific number of antique jewels.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The shake-up leaves an unusual number of spots open on the party’s Central Committee, which began its term in 2022 with 205 members and 171 non-voting alternates.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2025
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  • But the methods were no longer effective when mathematicians only wanted to find, say, the number of real solutions to the equations in an enumerative geometry problem, or the number of integer solutions.
    Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Algorithms are old—around 300 B.C., Euclid invented one for finding the greatest common divisor of two integers.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025

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“Digit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digit. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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