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Re:6174 by kelnos on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @05:11PM (#39019873)
The word "digit" is defined as 0-9, and specifically refers to base-10. This meaning of the word comes from one of its other definitions, referring to fingers and thumbs. We have 10 of those (usually), hence its use as as a reference to the symbols used in base-10 numbers.

("Binary digit" and "hexadecimal digit" are weird terms that abuse the language a bit.)

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Re:6174 by thrdbndndn on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @11:17PM (#39023237)
> abuse the language a bit

I see what you did here

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Re:6174 by codeflo on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @01:34AM (#39024021)
> The word "digit" is defined as 0-9

Lots of people seem to think that, hence the -2 rating of my comment, but that's not the modern definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_digit

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