Digit may refer to:
Mathematics and science
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Numerical digit
A numerical digit (often shortened to just digit) or numeral is a single symbol used alone (such as "1"), or in combinations (such as "15"), to represent numbers in positional notation, such as the common base 10. The name "digit" origin ...
, as used in mathematics or computer science
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Hindu–Arabic numerals, the most common modern representation of numerical digits
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Digit (anatomy)
A digit is one of several most distal parts of a limb, such as fingers or toes, present in many vertebrates.
Names
Some languages have different names for hand and foot digits (English: respectively "finger" and " toe", German: "Finger" and "Z ...
, the most distal part of a limb, such as a finger or toe
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Digit (unit)
The digit or finger is an ancient and obsolete non- SI unit of measurement of length. It was originally based on the breadth of a human finger. It was a fundamental unit of length in the Ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Hebrew, Ancient Greek and ...
, an ancient measurement unit
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Hartley (unit)
The hartley (symbol Hart), also called a ban, or a dit (short for "decimal digit"), is a logarithmic unit that measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10. One hartley is the information content of an event if ...
or decimal digit, a unit of information entropy
Personalities
* Digit, a gorilla studied by
Dian Fossey
Dian Fossey ( ; January 16, 1932 – ) was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her murder in 1985. She studied them daily in the mountain forests of ...
, killed by poachers and buried near Fossey's grave
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Digit Fund, now the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, founded by Fossey to raise money for anti-poaching patrols
Arts and media
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Digit (''Cyberchase''), a character in the TV series ''Cyberchase''
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''Digit'' (EP), by Echobelly, 2000
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''Digit'' (magazine), an Indian information technology magazine
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Liquid and digits
Liquid and digits is a type of Gesture, gestural, interpretive dance, interpretive, rave dance, rave and urban dance, urban street dance that sometimes involve aspects of mime artist, pantomime. The term invokes the word ''liquid'' to describe the ...
, a type of gestural, interpretive, rave and urban street dance
See also
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Dig It (disambiguation)
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Digital (disambiguation)
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