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 This fall Shohei Ohtani pitched with triple-digit heat and hit home runs that resembled Herman Munster’s blasts in a stupid 1960s TV show. Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2025 Some states, including Colorado and California, saw double-digit increases in per capita drinking since legalization. Kate Bernot, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Oct. 2025 Adidas saw double-digit growth in every market except North America. Cathrin Schaer, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2025 And those digits once again did not favor the Minnesota Wild on Sunday. Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 27 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for digit
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Noun
  • The moderates had expected a larger number of Democrats to vote with them as around 10-12 Democratic senators had been part of the negotiations.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2025
  • But Jackie’s defining value is framed as determination, and The Queen of Versailles is too busy handing her upbeat girlboss numbers to reckon in any meaningful way with the consequences.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Nov. 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 11 Nov. 2025.

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