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• #Power of ten converter how to#

Starting from the right, place commas every three digits: The left, 256, read each three-digit group. Starting from the left, read each three-digit group then say the name of its class. How do we read a whole number, however large? Together with knowing the sequence of class names, that is all that is necessary to be able to name or read any whole number.

#Power of ten converter how to#

In Lesson 1 we showed how to read and write any number from 1 to 999, which are the numbers in the class of Ones. Note that each class is 1000 times the previous class the Thousands are 1000 times the Ones the Millions are 1000 times the Thousands and so on. To read a number more easily, we separate each class - each group of three digits - by commas. Starting with Billions ( bi for two), each class has a Latin Notice how the names fall into groups of three: The second power of 10 is 100 it has two 0's. (The metric system is the system of measurement based on the powers of 10 see Lesson 4.) 10 Thousands.Įach power is composed of ten of the one above. They are the numbers produced when, starting with One, we continue collecting them into groups of 10.ġ0 Ones. The numbers in that sequence are called the powers of 10. Ten One Thousands are called Ten Thousand. The number we call One Thousand is a collection of ten One Hundreds. A number is the actual collection of units. We saw in Lesson 1 that '364' is a numeral, which is a symbol for a number. Those ten marks are also known as the Arabic numerals, because it was the Arab mathematicians who introduced them into Europe from India, where their forms evolved. When a whole number ends in 0's, how do we divide itġ05 is a three-digit number.How do we multiply a whole number by a power of 10?.