NUMBERS
Def. Number is the sign or word that represents the
amount or quantity e.g. one, two, three etc. there are symbols that used to
represent numbers, those symbols are called numerals e.g. 1, 2, 3 …..
In definition numerals are symbols used to represent numbers.
BASE TEN NUMERATION
The current forms of symbols which are
now used to represent numbers are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 0 they were
brought and discovered by Hindus and are called Hindu – Arabic Numerals. They are only ten.
Symbols that appear in numbers are
called digits, the word Digit derived from a Latin word “digitus”
which means “finger”. Consider the number 6275. This number has four digits,
which are 6, 2, 7 and 5
PLACE VALUE
As discussed earlier that each number
has digits, here we discuss about place value what is it? The answer is:-
Each digit has its value according to
its position in number. Consider the number 6275 starting discovering from
right, the right digit has the lowest value but as you go to the left the digit
value increase from 1 to 10 to 100 to 1000 to 10000 to 100000 etc. but we don’t
pronounce as normal like ten, hundred but they are pronounced as follows:-
1 - Ones
10 - Tens
100 - Hundreds
1000 - Thousands
10000 - Ten Thousands
100000 - Hundred Thousands
1000000 - Millions
