as in numbers
a character used to represent a mathematical value
in addition to the standard alphabetical letters and numerics, the keyboard features rows of special characters
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digits
Noun
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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
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“Numerics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/numerics. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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