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4.1 Hindu-Arabic Positional System

Place value as digits multiplied by powers of ten, writing a numeral in expanded form, and reassembling expanded form back into digits.

Contemporary Mathematics, 4.1 Hindu-Arabic Positional System

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4.1 Exercise 1

Evaluate the following exponential expressions.

  1. 4×52+2×634 \times 5^{2} + 2 \times 6^{3}
  2. 6×82+3×81+4×806 \times 8^{2} + 3 \times 8^{1} + 4 \times 8^{0}
  3. 3×102+0×101+6×1003 \times 10^{2} + 0 \times 10^{1} + 6 \times 10^{0}
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4.1 Exercise 3

Write the following in expanded form.

  1. 563
  2. 4,821
  3. 903,786
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4.1 Exercise 5

Convert the following into Hindu-Arabic numerals.

  1. 3×102+4×101+8×1003 \times 10^{2} + 4 \times 10^{1} + 8 \times 10^{0}
  2. 5×103+0×102+9×101+9×1005 \times 10^{3} + 0 \times 10^{2} + 9 \times 10^{1} + 9 \times 10^{0}
  3. 6×106+2×105+0×104+9×103+1×102+1×101+7×1006 \times 10^{6} + 2 \times 10^{5} + 0 \times 10^{4} + 9 \times 10^{3} + 1 \times 10^{2} + 1 \times 10^{1} + 7 \times 10^{0}
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3.11 Geometric Sequences4.2 Early Numeration Systems

Adapted from Contemporary Mathematics © 2023 Rice University. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Source: Contemporary Mathematics. Imported at revision fa7c1a1.

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