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The phrase "a place value" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in mathematical contexts to refer to the value of a digit based on its position in a number.
Example: "In the number 345, the digit 4 has a place value of 40."
Alternatives: "a positional value" or "a digit value".
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India was not the only civilization to have a place value number system.
Each digit in a number has a place value.
Numbers can be written as words using a place value table.
In placing the problem in a place value grid, he adds a '0' onto 42.5 to make 42.50 in the calculation.
In his working, two models had been juxtaposed alongside each other - the area model on the left and a column algorithm model placed within a place value frame.
Assign each column a place value.
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However, at that time equations were neither written nor conceptualized in terms of such a place-value notation.
But the Old Babylonian system converted this into a place-value system with the base of 60 (sexagesimal).
This is an instance of a place-value notation, in which the position of a number in a numerical configuration has a mathematical meaning.
What Archimedes does, in effect, is to create a place-value system of notation, with a base of 100,000,000.
The decimal system is a place-value system, which means that the value of a particular digit depends both on the digit itself and its position within the number.
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