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This section can help answer questions where numbers are written using words as well as digits.

Each digit in a number has a place value. It shows the position of a digit in a number. The first few place values are shown in the table.

Numbers can be written as words using a place value table.

Example

In the number 52,604 the digit 5 has a value of 50,000 (fifty thousand) and the digit 4 has the value of 4 units (four).