Editing Digit (unit) (section)

{{Other uses|Digit (disambiguation){{!}}Digit}}
[[File:Coudée-turin detail.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Detail of the Ancient Egyptian cubit rod in the [[Museo Egizio]] of [[Turin]], showing digit, palm, hand and fist lengths]]
[[File:Hand Units of Measurement.PNG|thumb|Some hand-based measurements, including the digit (6)]]
The '''digit''' or '''finger''' is an ancient and obsolete non-[[SI]] [[Units of measure|unit of measurement]] of [[length]]. It was originally based on the breadth of a human finger.<ref name=brit/> It was a fundamental unit of length in the [[Ancient Egyptian units of measurement|Ancient Egyptian]], [[Ancient Mesopotamian units of measurement|Mesopotamian]], [[Ancient Hebrew units of measurement|Hebrew]], [[Ancient Greek units of measurement|Ancient Greek]] and [[Ancient Roman units of measurement|Roman]] systems of measurement.

In astronomy a digit is one twelfth of the diameter of the sun or the moon.<ref name=11th/>