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What's the difference between numeral, number, digit, and figure?
These words, such as numeral, number, digit, and figure have similar meaning in Chinese,
I am confused about them.
Thank you!
1 апр. 2020 г., 6:22
Ответы · 7
This is a good explanation of number, numeral, and digit.
https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/numbers-numerals-digits.html
In my experience, "figure" tends to be a number that was the result of some calculation, for example:
"He is earning a six figure salary." (Meaning he makes $100,000 or more)
OR
"I balanced the budget. Could you check these figures for me, please?"
1 апреля 2020 г.
The meanings will differ with context
numeral = a single written number like "1" or "4" not "23".
Eg Germans write the numerals 1 and 7 differently to the English.
The Roman numeral for 4 is IV.
MMXX is 2020 in Roman numerals.
number = a quantity, 0, 1, 45, 3E8, pi, -47,
Used for many things at different times.
Can be used to "numeral" or ""digit" sometimes.
eg pi is an irrational number
I can't read your writing. This number is twenty something? What's the second number/numeral/digit?
digit - usually a single character of a number.
eg The first digit of pi is 3. Clocks usually have four digits, for hours and minutes or six digits if they include seconds.
figure - Often used for digit. Sometimes used for number, but I suspect less often by a long way.
eg What's this figure here in this long number? I can't read your writing.
pi squared to two significant figures is 10.
"figure" and "figure out" are also verbs meaning something about working things out or your believe in something.
eg I figure it is too far to walk to town.
I can't figure this out.
Also means image, picture or course.
1 апреля 2020 г.
Hello, Azeh Achou. Thank you.
1 апреля 2020 г.
A number is the idea and numeral is the representation. A numeral is a symbol or name that stands for a number. Examples: 3, 49 and twelve are all numerals. So the number is an idea, the numeral is how we write it.
A figure can be any number. A digit would have to be one of the individual symbols used in writing a number.
1 апреля 2020 г.
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