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DIGIT (Lat. digit us, finger)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 268 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DIGIT (
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Lat. digit us,
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finger)  , literally a
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finger or toe, and so used to mean, from counting on the fingers, a single
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numeral, or, from measuring, a finger's breadth . In
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astronomy a
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digit is the twelfth
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part of the
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diameter of the
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sun or
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moon; it is used to
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express the magnitude of an
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eclipse .

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