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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 The heat wave hitting Baltimore, which has caused temperatures to rise to the triple digits, is projected to continue into Thursday, perhaps with afternoon storms. Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2025 Notably, Dirac represents a breakthrough as the first and only quantum system to natively solve integer problems using quantum digits (qdits) rather than traditional quantum bits (qubits). Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025 Those two titles are the only ones in the group’s discography to make it to triple digit stays on this purchases-only roster. Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025 Even with the sore digit, Tucker belted a pitch to right field in the third inning with his eyes on a triple, but the ball got stuck in the ivy and was ruled a double. Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for digit
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  • Kim did not specify the number of employees who could be affected or the units that would see layoffs.
    Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • Collecting 16 games of action last year, the numbers were back up in a big way.
    Justin Grasso, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 July 2025
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  • The curriculum tackles a small number of seminal topics in each school year—like ratio and proportion or the concept of integers—and teaches these deeply from multiple angles.
    Linda Darling-Hammond, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • Given that there are infinitely many positive integers of all different sizes, however, this number is minuscule compared with even larger primes.
    Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 16 June 2025

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“Digit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digit. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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