digit

«digit» in Mova's judaism dictionary: one of the ten signs 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 that… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (digit, digits)

meaning for a pupil

1) A digit is one of the ten signs 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 that we use to write numbers. The number 47 has two digits. tree →

2) A digit is also a finger or a toe. tree →

3) «Digital» things work with numbers inside, like computers and digital clocks. tree →

sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Readers of Sefer Yetzirah take the ten sefirot as the ten digits, which also stand for deeper spiritual powers. In the primary lessons: In school maths: the signs that make up a number; problems ask about the tens digit, the ones digit, two-digit and three-digit numbers, the sum of the digits, or the largest number made from some digits; place value. In everyday life: a phone number or a PIN has digits; a digital clock shows the time in digits. Phrases: «two-digit number», «the tens digit», «single digits».

examples

• It should probably be understood on one level as a reference to the ten digits of the decimal numeral system, though as we shall see, these Sefirot Belimah are imbued with metaphysical significance beyond mere numerals. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
• 7) Like Pythagoras, who taught that the digits inclusive number ten which are typified in Tetraktys, (Τετρακτὺς) namely: 1 plus 2 plus 3 plus 4 equal 10, and which comprise the whole arithmetical system of nature, etc. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
• may say that tlie numeral system of the Sefer Yetzirah, con- sists of nine digits and the zero. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• Write the largest two-digit number. tree →
• The tens digit of 58 is 5. tree →
• Make a three-digit number using the digits 3, 7 and 1. tree →
• What is the sum of the digits of 246? tree →
• My PIN has four digits. tree →
• The temperature is in single digits today. tree →
• Humans have five digits on each hand. tree →
• A digital clock shows the time as digits. tree →

note

There are 10 digits, 0 to 9, but every number can be written with them. Maths: names a place in a number, not an amount: in 58 the digit 5 stands for 50. Trap: «the digit 5» and «the number 5» are not the same thing; «two-digit» tells the size of a number (10 to 99), not that there are two of something.

In the corpora

• Big numbers often use commas to group digits in threes: 1,000 and 25,000.
• Every olympiad number puzzle gets easier if you write the digits first, then the words.
• Indian mathematicians treated zero as a real number, and the digits 0 to 9 on your calculator were invented in India.
• Pages 1 to 9 use one digit each: 9 digits.
• Pages 10 to 99 are 90 pages with two digits each: 180 digits.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «digit» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.