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In digital technology, what is meant by digit?

Please explain in layman's words. Thank you.

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1. digits are the data to be transferred.
2. digit means figures....digital technology i think it referring to binary...your PC for example...holds information in successions of 0's and 1's
3. a number
4. A digital system is one that uses discrete numbers, especially binary numbers, or non-numeric symbols such as letters or icons, for input, processing, transmission, storage, or display, rather than a continuous spectrum of values (an analog system). The distinction of "digital" versus "analog" can refer to method of input, data storage and transfer, the internal working of an instrument, and the kind of display. The word comes from the same source as the word digit and digitus: the Latin word for finger (counting on the fingers) as these are used for discrete counting.
5. It's referring to the numbers in the binary code 0 and 1.
6. In digital technology a "digit" means exactly the same thing it does in any other context. It's just that the applications are different. A "digit" is a number character. There are ten of them: zero through 9. Digital technology starts with a single bit. A bit is a "B"inary dig"IT." In other words, it is either a 1 or a 0. Eight bits combine to make a byte. A thousand bytes = 1 kilobyte or 1K; a thousand kilobytes = 1 megabyte or 1 M; A thousand megabytes = 1 gigabyte or 1 G. These bytes can sent via carrier wave and/or stored in memory. But it's just a bunch of 1's and 0's. Two little digits build our entire digital civilization.
7. A "digit" is your finger. Because we have 10 fingers (most of us), we use a 10 digit number system. All ten digits are numbered, and in math this includes 0: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 The number 10 has two digits: 0 and 1 When some information is called "digital," that means that it is represented by countable numbers. For example, a digital audio CD only contains a bunch of numbers that are later translated into sound. The numbers themselves are not sound! The real sound is called and analog signal. Digital technology is very popular because it takes some part of information found in analog signals and copies it into numbers for safekeeping. Once something is digitized, it can be preserved and copied perfectly forever without ever changing. Analog information always changes when it is copied: for example, when you photocopy a paper, the quality keeps diminishing. You know what a bad copy looks like! However, if that paper were a file on your computer, you could print a million copies and always get the same thing.