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 girl's mother found her hours later, with the A/C automatically turned off, and outside temperatures in the triple digits. Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 5 Nov. 2025 For election offices, the ability to use only the last four digits of a Social Security number may speed routine audits and batch checks of voter rolls, reducing the number of incomplete matches that previously required additional data. Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025 However, first-time voters who registered by mail without providing a driver’s license number, state ID or the last four digits of their Social Security number might be required to show identification. Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2025 People would devote entire dissertations to developing techniques for distinguishing handwritten digits or for recognizing faces in images; then a deep-learning algorithm would digest the underlying data, discover the subtleties of the problem, and make those projects seem obsolete. James Somers, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025 And those digits once again did not favor the Minnesota Wild on Sunday. Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 27 Oct. 2025 That was the question that launched years of collaborations and discussions between the pair to figure out how exactly a hand with five digits could be used to convey a 12-hour period. Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2025 The data exposed included Discord usernames, real names, emails, limited billing details such as payment type and the last four digits of credit cards, IP addresses and messages exchanged with customer service agents. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2025 Among the information sought is the voter’s full name, date of birth, address, state driver’s license number and the last four digits of their Social Security number. Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Digits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digits. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.

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