{{Short description|Typographical space as wide as a numeral}} A '''figure space''' or '''numeric space'''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/globalization/gcoc/attachments/CS01310.txt |title=Symbols - Personal Computer |id=GCSGID 01310 |date=1996 |work=REGISTRY, Graphic Character Sets and Code Pages |author=IBM |author-link=IBM}}</ref> is a typographic unit equal to the size of a single numerical digit. Its size can fluctuate somewhat depending on which font is being used. This is the preferred space to use in numbers. It has the same width as a digit and keeps the number together for the purpose of line breaking.<ref name=annex14>{{cite journal|editor1-last=Heninger|editor1-first=Andy|title=Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm|journal=Technical Reports|date=2013-01-25|volume=Annex #14|issue=Proposed Update Unicode Standard|page=19|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2013/13022-uax14-31.pdf|access-date=10 March 2015|format=PDF|quote=This is the preferred space to use in numbers. It has the same width as a digit and keeps the number together for the purpose of line breaking.}}</ref>

==Standard== In Unicode it is assigned {{unichar|2007|FIGURE SPACE|ulink=General Punctuation#Block}}. Its HTML character entity reference is {{tt|&amp;numsp;}}.

Baudot code may include a figure space. It is character 23 on the Hughes telegraph typewheel.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Evolution of Character Codes, 1874-1968|first1=Eric|last1=Fischer|url=http://trafficways.org/ascii/ascii.pdf|access-date=2015-09-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170318185346/http://trafficways.org/ascii/ascii.pdf|archive-date=2017-03-18|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==See also== * Digit grouping * {{anl|Em (typography)}} * {{anl|En (typography)}} * {{anl|Figure dash}} * {{anl|Non-breaking space}} * {{anl|Space (punctuation)}} * {{anl|Thin space}} * {{anl|Whitespace character}} * {{anl|Word joiner}}

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