Back Ujj (mértékegység) Hungarian Թիվ (միավոր) Armenian ディジット Japanese Digitus (mensura) Latin ഡിജിറ്റ് (ഏകകം) Malayalam Fingerbreidd NN Fingerbredde NB Digit (unit) SIMPLE Digit (hijian) Sundanese Digit (đơn vị) Vietnamese

Digit (unit)

For other uses, see Digit.
Detail of the Ancient Egyptian cubit rod in the Museo Egizio of Turin, showing digit, palm, hand and fist lengths
Some hand-based measurements, including the digit (6)

The digit or finger is an ancient and obsolete non-SI unit of measurement of length. It was originally based on the breadth of a human finger.[1] It was a fundamental unit of length in the Ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Hebrew, Ancient Greek and Roman systems of measurement.

In astronomy a digit is one twelfth of the diameter of the sun or the moon.[2]

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