digits

plural of digit
as in numbers
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 digits The person being vouched for also must sign an oath attesting to their identity and eligibility to vote, and must also provide their Minnesota driver’s license or identification card number or the last four digits of their Social Security number. — Mark Vancleave, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026 The person being vouched for also must sign an oath attesting to their identity and eligibility to vote, and must also provide their Minnesota driver's license or identification card number or the last four digits of their Social Security number. — ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026 To assess their computing potential, the researchers used the devices’ measured electrical characteristics in a convolutional neural network designed to recognize handwritten digits from the standard MNIST dataset. — New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2026 Engineers could represent the two configurations as binary digits, or zeros and ones. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026 Brent crude fell 2% and traded at $98 per barrel — still up more than 30% since the start of the war with Iran but a relief from recent prices in the triple digits. — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026 An unusual stretch of October heat is raising concerns about fire danger across Northern California, with temperatures expected to climb to triple digits in some areas. — Brady Halbleib, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026 Southern California will still remain in the triple digits over the next few days, and the 90s for the rest of the week, but temperatures these hot are a real heat stress. — Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2026 Almost 160 million eligible voters will use electronic voting machines to punch in the digits corresponding to their candidates, preparing number-heavy lists. — Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026

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“Digits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digits. Accessed 3 Nov. 2026.

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