Because this is the important idea behind whole number place value, decimal place value and fractions.

We count how many positions to the right of the decimal point So it's going to be equal to this.

So notice, after we've gotten to the nth index so in this case this is the index 2 where that 1 was right over there everything up to and including that index is sorted.

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This is in the hundredths place..

Or another way to think about is that the length of the white bar, the absolute value is going to be 2.

Now why is it called the tens place? I mean there's a two right there. It's the place that's called the tens place.

Well, there's one number behind the decimal point, two numbers behind the decimal point, three numbers behind the decimal point, four numbers behind the decimal point.

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Once again, the little white part right there, that white part plus this 29 is going to equal to 31. If we just think of the absolute value. If we don't think about the signs, we just think about the length.

That means times this cell, times 15.

Even this huge distance, we could put it into this little box right over here.

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Or another way to think about is, 31 29 will give us the length of the white part and of course it's going to be negative.

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We've shifted the decimal.

We have our decimal space.

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No, because the 143rd place of my decimal is different from the 143rd place of your 143rd number.

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We put the decimal point here.

Actually, this decimal point is right here.

What does that equal as a decimal?

So we go behind our decimal point.