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The INDIAN place value




                    chart






                  Ten lakh          Lakh          Ten thousand                 Thousand             Hundred Tens                 Ones


                         5              4                    6                         7                  0              3           8



             The face value of a digit in a number is the value of



                 the digit itself at whatever place it may be.



                        The face value of 3 at tens place is 3.



             The place value of a digit depends on its position in


                 the number.



                 The place value of 3 at tens place is 3tens=30



            The place value of 0 is always 0.
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