What is Place value?
[[File:Binary clock.svg|thumb|A binary clock can use lamps or [[Diode|diodes]] to show the time as binary digits. The image above shows the time as a [[Binary Coded Decimal|BCD]] code.]] '''Place value '''in [[mathematics]] is the value represented by a digit. In the [[decimal]] system (which is base 10) with digits (0-9) the first column left of the decimal place is the units column, the next column to the left is the tens, the next is the hundreds. The first column right of the decimal place is the tenths column, the next is hundredths, the next is thousandths. This can be illustrated as H T U . t h th ==Related pages== *[[Arithmetic]] [[Category:Mathematics]]