KNOWING OUR NUMBERS

NATURAL NUMBERS

The counting numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, are called natural numbers.

WHOLE NUMBERS

The natural numbers along with 0 are called whole numbers.

DIGITS

In Hindu-Arabic system of writing numbers, the ten symbols namely 0, 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 are called digits or figures.

NUMERAL

A single digit or group of digits denoting a number is called a numeral. For
example, 8; 3451 and
71563 are numerals.

NOTATION
The process of writing a number in digits or figures is called notation.

NUMERATION
The method of writing a number in words is called numeration.
There are two commonly used methods of numerations.
1. Indian System of Numeration
2. International System of Numeration
INDIAN SYSTEM OF NUMERATION
PERIODS CRORES LAKHS THOUSANDS ONES

Ten crore Crore Ten Lakh Lakh Ten Th Th H T O


INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF NUMERATION
PERIODS BILLIONS MILLIONS THOUSANDS ONES
PLACES
Hun. Ten Billion
BillionBillion
Hun. Ten Million
Million Million
Hun. Ten Th Th
Th
H T O

Writing number in 3 different ways:
a) In figures
Example : 5,65,347
b) In words
Example: Five Lakh sixty five thousand three hundred forty seven.
c) In Expanded form
500000 + 60000 + 5000 + 300 + 40 + 7
FACE VALUE
The face value of a digit is the number or a symbol it represents irrespective of its
position in the numeral. For example, the face value of 5 in 3,76,451 as well as in
57,869 is 5.

PLACE VALUE

The place value of a digit in a number is its face value multiplied by its position value in
the placevalue chart. The place value of a digit depends on its position in the number.
For example, the place value of 5 in 6,285 is
5 1 = 5 and
5,41,008 is 5 1,00,000 = 5,00,000.