Tool to list/distinguish the different ranks of the digits (place values) in a number, the integer part (unit, ten, hundred, etc.) or the decimal part (tenth, hundredth, thousandth, etc.)
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Tag(s) : Mathematics, Notation System
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Place Values
Number's Digits Decomposition
Answers to Questions (FAQ)
What are the names of each digit places in a number?
Each number in a number can be associated to a a name that describes its position, its rank. The best known are the numbers of the units, tens, hundreds, thousands for integer numbers, or the numbers of the tenths, hundredths, thousandths, etc for decimal numbers. but there are others (all of them can be described). Here is a list/chart/table in English:
| 1 | Units (Once) | Digit 1 |
| 10 | Tens (Tence) | Digit 2 |
| 100 | Hundreds | Digit 3 |
| 1000 | Thousands | Digit 4 |
| 10000 | Tens of Thousands | Digit 5 |
| 100000 | Hundreds of Thousands | Digit 6 |
| 1000000 | Millions | Digit 7 |
| 1000000000 | Billions | Digit 10 |
| 0.1 | Tenths | 1st decimal place |
| 0.01 | Hundredths | 2nd decimal place |
| 0001 | Thousandths | 3rd decimal place |
| 0.0001 | Ten Thousandths | 4th decimal place |
| 0.00001 | Hundred Thousandths | 5th decimal place |
| 0.000001 | Millionths | 6th decimal place |
| 0.000000001 | Billionth | 9th decimal place |
Example: 1.2 for 1 unit and 2 tenths
0.005 for 5 thousandths
700 for 7 hundreds
NB: The place value of digit is always 10 times as great as the place value of the digit to its right.
How to write a number in letters?
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