0 the value of a number decided by its position, for instance whether it is a one, a ten, a hundred, etc. --
The remaining digits to the left of the rounded place value are used as the stem.
Anyone who reads this number also knows that the leftmost digit has the biggest place value.
A tallying system has no concept of place value (as in modern decimal notation), which limits its representation of large numbers.
It is also called factorial base, although factorials do not function as base, but as place value of digits.
Both these methods break up the subtraction as a process of one digit subtractions by place value.
More importantly even still was the development of the concept of decimal place value.
The beads in the upper shorter grooves denote fives -- five units, five tens, "etc.", essentially in a bi-quinary coded decimal place value system.
This formation of large numbers was accomplished by incorporating the place value system into the scheme.
