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Digit vs Pandigital - What's the difference?

digit | pandigital |

As a noun digit

is a finger or toe.

As a verb digit

is to point at or point out with the finger.

As an adjective pandigital is

(mathematics|of a number) containing at least one of every digit in its base.

digit

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A finger or toe.
  • * Owen
  • The ruminants have the cloven foot, i.e. two hoofed digits on each foot.
  • A numeral that can be combined with others to write larger numbers, and that cannot itself be split into other numerals.
  • 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.
  • (slang, in the plural) One's phone number.
  • That girl likes me — she gave me her digits .
  • (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.
  • An eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk.

    Derived terms

    * digital * digitize

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To point at or point out with the finger.
  • pandigital

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (mathematics, of a number) Containing at least one of every digit in its base.
  • 1749208365 is a pandigital number.

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