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== References == {{reflist|refs= <ref name=11th>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Digit |volume=8 |page=268}}</ref> <ref name=brit>Hosch, William L. (ed.) (2010) [https://books.google.com/books?id=cuN7rH6RzikC ''The Britannica Guide to Numbers and Measurement''] New York, NY: Britannica Educational Publications, 1st edition. {{ISBN|978-1-61530-108-9}}, p.203</ref> <ref name=chamb>Macdonald, A.M. (ed.) (1972) ''Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary'' Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers {{ISBN|0-550-10206-X}}, "digit"</ref> <ref name=clagett>{{cite book|last=Clagett|first=Marshall|title=Ancient Egyptian Science, A Source Book. Volume 3: Ancient Egyptian Mathematics|year= 1999|publisher= American Philosophical Society|location= Philadelphia|isbn= 978-0-87169-232-0|url= https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_8c10QYoGa4UC}}</ref> <ref name=heath>{{cite book |last=Heath |first=Robert |authorlink=Robert Heath (mathematician) |year=1760 |url=https://archive.org/details/astronomiaaccur00heatgoog |title=Astronomia accurata; or ... subservient to the three principal Subjects |publisher=Published by the author. |location= London |page=ix}}</ref> <ref name=hockey>Hockey, Thomas et al. (eds.) (2007) [http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Sadr_al-Sharia_al-Thani_BEA.htm ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Springer Reference''] New York: Springer pp. 1002–1003</ref> <ref name=lepsius>{{cite book|last=Lepsius|first=Richard|title=Die altaegyptische Elle und ihre Eintheilung|year=1865|publisher=Dümmler|location=Berlin|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_PRQGAAAAQAAJ|language=German}}</ref> <ref name=neug>[[Otto Neugebauer|Neugebauer, Otto]] (1975) [https://books.google.com/books?id=vO5FCVIxz2YC ''A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy''] Berlin: Springer, {{ISBN|978-0-387-06995-1}} Volume 2, p.658</ref> <ref name=plut>Plutarchus Chaeronensis, Frank Cole Babbitt (trans.) (1957) [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/The_Face_in_the_Moon*/C.html#ref226 ''Plutarch's Moralia: In fifteen volumes''] London: William Heinemann, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Volume XII p.144</ref> <ref name=sadr>'Ubayd Allāh ibn Mas'ūd Ṣadr al-S̆arīaẗ al-Aṣġar al-Maḥbūbī, Ahmad S. Dallal (1995) [https://books.google.com/books?id=ULp2LGmKTSMC ''An Islamic response to Greek astronomy: kitāb Ta'dīl hay'at al-aflāk of Ṣadr al-Sharī'a''] (in Arabic and English) Leiden, New York: E.J. Brill, {{ISBN|978-90-04-09968-5}} p.212</ref> <ref name=selin>{{cite book|editor-last=Selin|editor-first=Helaine|editor-link=Helaine Selin|title=Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in non-Western Cultures|year= 1997|publisher= Kluwer|location= Dordrecht|isbn= 978-0-7923-4066-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=raKRY3KQspsC}}</ref> }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Digit (Length)}} [[Category:Units of length]] [[Category:Human-based units of measurement]]
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