Editing Digit (unit) (section)

=== Britain ===
{{main|English units}}
A '''digit''' ([[Latin language|lat.]] ''digitus'', "finger"), when used as a unit of length, is usually a sixteenth of a [[foot (unit)|foot]] or 3/4" ([[1 E-2 m|1.905 cm]] for the international [[inch]]).<ref name="Zupko1985">{{cite book|author=Ronald Edward Zupko|authorlink=Ronald Edward Zupko|title=A dictionary of weights and measures for the British Isles: the Middle Ages to the twentieth century|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_0l_k-XMIiQIC|accessdate=15 January 2012|year=1985|publisher=American Philosophical Society|isbn=978-0-87169-168-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_0l_k-XMIiQIC/page/n143 109]–10}}</ref> The width of an adult human male finger tip is indeed about 2 centimetres. In English this unit has mostly fallen out of use, as do others based on the human arm: [[finger (unit)|finger]] (7/6 digit), [[palm (unit)|palm]] (4 digits), [[hand (unit)|hand]] (16/3 digits), [[shaftment]] (8 digits), [[span (length)|span]] (12 digits), [[cubit]] (24 digits) and [[ell (unit)|ell]] (60 digits).