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Use of commas helps us in reading and writing large numbers.
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Use of commas differs in the Indian and the International Systems.
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Comparing any two numbers, the one with more digits is larger.
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Comparing any two numbers, if the digits are the same, the number that has a greater left most digit is larger.
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Using BIDMAS, we can avoid the common arithmetic mistakes.
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Large numbers are needed for various situations in our daily life.
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The situations where we do not need the exact quantity give rise to estimation or approximation.
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Estimation is approximating a quantity to a reasonable accuracy.
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Rounding of a number involves in getting a quick, desired and rough estimate of it.
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If zero is included in the collection of Natural numbers (N), we get the collection of Whole numbers (W), \(W = \{0, 1, 2, \dots\}\).
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‘0’ is the smallest whole number.
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‘0’ and ‘1’ are the additive and multiplicative identities of whole numbers respectively.
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Whole numbers can be added or multiplied in any order and hence Commutative.
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Multiplication of Whole numbers is both Commutative and Associative.
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Multiplication is Distributive over addition for Whole numbers.
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Division by ‘0’ is not defined.