Align the numbers according their place values. Go from left to right (decreasing place values) until the face values of the numbers are different. Then the number with the larger face value in that place is the larger number.
When absolute values are smaller than one!
Each position has a place-value that is 10 times as much as the position that is one to the right of it; or 1/10 as much as the position that is one to the left of it.The starting point is that the right-most digit in a whole number, or of the whole part in a number with decimals, has a place-value of 1.
What does it mean to talk about place
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Align the numbers according their place values. Go from left to right (decreasing place values) until the face values of the numbers are different. Then the number with the larger face value in that place is the larger number.
a European mathematician did it two or three centuries ago. before then they used fractions instead of decimals.
By doing this it aligns all the place values so you can clearly add or subtract the correct place values and get a correct answer. You might say it is an organization technique. Of course if you use a calculator, this is not necessary.
Represent numerical values.
To show values less than 1.
Decimals until you get to values with over nine decimal places, then fractions are more exact
There are an infinite number of decimal place values. Last year, a Japanese team,using a supercomputer, calculated the value of "pi" out to 4 trillion decimal places.The first seven places after the decimal point are:tenthshundredthsthousandthsten-thousandthshundred-thousandthsmillionthsten-millionths
The fundamental principal of decimal numbers is that the place value of any digit is ten times that of the place value of the digit to its right. Coventionally, place values with negative and non-negative powers of ten are separated by the decimal point.
you can line up the decimals
No. Gasoline is inanimate and does not use decimals. Full Stop.
Decimals are everywhere - money is one big place you'll find them!
When absolute values are smaller than one!