An abacus is a traditional calculation device consisting of a frame, a horizontal dividing bar, and columns of beads, each of which has aplacevalue.
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Not all cultures, for example,placevalueon enjoyment of reading or on the use of attractive storybooks for instructional purposes.
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Considering how integral archaeological practice is to value, when weplacevaluecentre stage it cries out for archaeologists to engender more engaged archaeological practices through situated ethical agendas.
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It will compound the difficulty and possibly damage their health if weplacevalueadded tax on children's shoes.
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In mathematics, students are taughtplacevalueto hundreds or thousands, and renaming with addition and subtraction.
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This formation of large numbers was accomplished by incorporating theplacevaluesystem into the scheme.
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The beads in the upper shorter grooves denote fives -- five units, five tens, "etc.", essentially in a bi-quinary coded decimalplacevaluesystem.
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More importantly even still was the development of the concept of decimalplacevalue.
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Both these methods break up the subtraction as a process of one digit subtractions byplacevalue.
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It is also called factorial base, although factorials do not function as base, but asplacevalueof digits.
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A tallying system has no concept ofplacevalue(as in modern decimal notation), which limits its representation of large numbers.
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Anyone who reads this number also knows that the leftmost digit has the biggestplacevalue.
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The remaining digits to the left of the roundedplacevalueare used as the stem.
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The various digits were written from left to right; that is, the digit with the lowestplacevalueis written as the left most digit.
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He continues toplacevalueon education both in the academic setting and the church.
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