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by HPsquared 806 days ago
I guess base-10 is still "digital", in that it works with digits.
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remember bits are binary digits

I guess a decimal digit would be a dit

digital is simply discrete, as opposed to analog / continuous

  digit
  late Middle English: from Latin digitus ‘finger, toe’; digit (sense 1) arose from the practice of counting on the fingers.
"Digit" is the decimal digit.