The New Practical Navigator; Being a Complete Epitome of Navigation: To Which Are Added, All the Tables Requisite for Determining the Latitude and Longitude at Sea. E-book. Formato PDF John Hamilton Moore   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

As whole Numbers increafe their value in tenfold proportion from the right hand to the left, f0 Decimals decreafe in the fame proportion from the left hand towards the right thus, 5 05 005 or thus, T15, rho: 70560.

Practical Business Arithmetic. E-book. Formato PDF John H. Moore   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Thus, in the Roman system, VII z 5 1 1. In the Arabic system, 511 5 hundreds 1 ten 1. 5 has not only the unit value five, but also the place value hundreds; and the 1 following has not only the unit value One, but also the place value ten.