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Base ten number system

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Base ten number system

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5 4 9 60 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Thousands hundreds tens ones

With 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 you can make any number you wish as you can see above.

The base ten number system is probably based on our fingers because there are ten of them.

People in the old day probably used the base ten number system it to count items such as live stock.

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To get from the ones to the tens you multiply 10 then to get from the tens to the hundreds you multiply ten again and so on.

thousands hundreds tens ones100x10 10x10 1x10

Well that’s the base ten number system.

By Sebastian