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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 While online sales for holiday are seen growing midsingle digits, overall holiday sales — digital and brick-and-mortar store sales combined — are seen growing just low-single digits. David Moin, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025 Phoenix had the coolest start to June since 1999 with only one day in the triple digits in the first week, and even two days in the 80s. Amanda Luberto, AZCentral.com, 6 Oct. 2025 Discord says that although the attacker did not gain direct access to its own systems, data such as real names, email addresses, and limited billing details (including payment type, the last four digits of credit cards, and purchase history linked to user accounts) may have been exposed. Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 5 Oct. 2025 The cost of dining out at local staples like Skyline, LaRosa’s, and Izzy’s has seen double-digit price hikes. Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for digit
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Noun
  • Those numbers do not include killings that CMPD found to be justified self-defense.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Mahomes’ jersey number 15 was sewn on the light pink lining of the coat.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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 15 Oct. 2025.

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