Example sentences for: digits

How can you use “digits” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • , digits other than place-holder zeros) beyond the level of precision of your estimate.

  • A committee of CEOs from grocery manufacturers, food chain stores, and other companies met in 1970 to develop a “universal product code” for scanning purposes: the first five digits stand for the manufacturer and the last five identify the item at the stockkeeping unit (SKU) level.

  • The results of the present study are similar to the sensitivities reported for the cat soleus muscle but differ from muscles of the digits in cats.

  • While it is acknowledged that such a method would not work well for books, the idea was that the number of occurrencies of a lemma (a technical though convenient term for the `thing--word or phrase--under study'), multiplied by, say the Audit Bureau of Circulation sworn circulation of a periodical would yield a figure that could legitimately be called its Exposure . Obviously, such a number would be far too large to manipulate readily, so, using a formula familiar to statisticians, it was normalized to produce a simple decimal number of only a few digits which I called the lemma's Exposure Index . The purpose of the exercise was to connect the frequency information with the language as it is used and perceived; in addition, the approach would serve to eliminate from consideration those materials which, though published, were little read, with a consequent low influence on the lexicon.

  • In order to include more persons with low GLSCF consumption, we used random digit dialing with matching to the captains cohort by age and region (first six digits of the telephone exchange) to contact the general population.


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