Digit vs Alphametic - What's the difference?
digit | alphametic |
A finger or toe.
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A numeral that can be combined with others to write larger numbers, and that cannot itself be split into other numerals.
(slang, in the plural) One's phone number.
(archaic) A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three quarters of an inch.
(astronomy) A twelfth of the diameter of the Sun or Moon; used to express the quantity of an eclipse.
A puzzle that presents an arithmetic problem with letters in place of the digits, the reader challenged to deduce which digit corresponds to each letter.
As nouns the difference between digit and alphametic
is that digit is a finger or toe while alphametic is a puzzle that presents an arithmetic problem with letters in place of the digits, the reader challenged to deduce which digit corresponds to each letter.As a verb digit
is to point at or point out with the finger.digit
English
Noun
(en noun)- The ruminants have the cloven foot, i.e. two hoofed digits on each foot.
- The digits of the decimal number system are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, and those in the hexadecimal number system are those in the decimal system along with A, B, C, D, E and F.
- The number 2307 has four digits: the thousands digit is 2; the hundreds digit is 3; the tens digit is 0; and the units digit is 7.
- That girl likes me — she gave me her digits .
- An eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk.