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Re:6174 by joehx2 on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @04:50PM (#39019635)
> There’s no such thing as a “four-digit number”, only a four-digit base-10 numeral

Being further pedantic - aren't all digits base ten? I thought that was part of the definition of digit.

Other bases would have different words for their numbers - bit in binary, for example (which, yeah, I know, it a combination of the words "binary" and "digit").

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Re:6174 by Anon84 on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @05:17PM (#39019920)
If you really want to be pedantic, you say that every base is base 10 :) (in its own representation)
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Re:6174 by selcuka on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @05:47PM (#39020218)
> Other bases would have different words for their numbers - bit in binary, for example

Do we have another example? I don't think there are special terms for "octal digits" or "hexadecimal digits".

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Re:6174 by codeflo on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @01:36AM (#39024043)
> Being further pedantic - aren't all digits base ten? I thought that was part of the definition of digit.

We call computer circuits "digital" even though they work in base 2.

Regardless of the word's origin, digits are simply the symbols in a positional number system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_digit

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