What are the digits called when you add numbers?

Answer 1

Remember , when starting from the decimal point, and moving to the left, each digit column is named ;- Units, Tens, Hundreds, Thousands, Tens of thousands, 'Hundreds of thousands' and ' millions.

Again starting the with decimal point, and moving to the right, each digit colum is named ; 'Tenths,' , Hundredths, 'Thousandths', Ten of Thousandths', Hun dreds of thousandths, & millionths.

Note the use of '-ths' in the decimal digits.

As an example

1234.567.

'1' is thousands

'2' is hundreds

'3' is tens

'4' is units

'5' is tenths

'6' is hundredths

'7' is thousandths.

Such a numbers as 1,000,000 is said as 'one million;

Conversely such as number as 0.000001 is said as 'one millionth'.

Answer 2

The numbers are called the summands. The digits would therefore be components of the summands.