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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 Or seen a series of digits, like 555, crop up in everyday contexts, such as on an address, bill, or receipt? Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 1 Aug. 2025 Daily record high temperatures were set at LaGuardia Airport (99 degrees) and Atlantic City, New Jersey (97) on July 30, while heat indices – what the heat feels like – reached triple digits in some areas, the National Weather Service said. Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 31 July 2025 Charlotte weekend forecast Temperatures will reach up to about 95 degrees in Charlotte Saturday, with the heat index reaching into triple digits, the NWS forecast says. Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 19 July 2025 The file was converted from binary format into hexadecimal, an encoding scheme that uses the digits 0 through 9 and the letters A through F to represent binary values in a compact combination of characters. Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 16 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for digit
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  • The census data is used for various purposes including deciding the number of U.S. Representatives each state gets, drawing electoral district boundaries and allocating government resources.
    Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Removing undocumented immigrants from the census’s population count would likely impact the number of House seats apportioned to multiple states—including both Texas and California.
    Solcyré Burga, Time, 7 Aug. 2025
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  • Research shows that by reducing numerical precision from 32-bit floats to 8-bit integers (or lower), most AI applications can maintain accuracy while slashing power consumption by four to five times.
    Lee-Lean Shu, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • Like Shor’s algorithm, the new approach factors integers in a reasonable amount of time.
    Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 9 June 2025

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“Digit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digit. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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