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This is because after one reached the 9th disc and counted to the next, it would require two digits, 1 and 0. Therefore, the 1 would be carried to the next rod, the tens rod. This would leave you with one 10, and 0 ones. Then for the next number, 11, you would move up a single disc in the ones column again. So you would still have one 10, and now one 1. Counting would continue as such, with each multiple of ten being transferred and accounted for in the appropriate column or rod.

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