• @philthi
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    23 days ago

    But… This has no digits in the 10,000s place… What am I missing here?

    • @philthi
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      123 days ago

      Ah, now I see the problem: I’m a fool

      • pflanzenregal
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        3 days ago

        Explain, for the other fools (and non-native speakers).

        Is it referring to the coefficient of 10^4?

        • @[email protected]
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          62 days ago

          The total number can be broken down to 6 * 1,000,000 + 6 * 100,000 + 6 * 10,000 + 6 * 1,000 + 6 * 100 + 6 * 10 + 6 * 1.

          So you could think of it as a number with 6 millions, 6 hundred thousands, 6 ten thousands, 6 thousands, 6 hundreds, 6 tens, and 6 ones.

          They just wanted any 7-digit number with 6 ‘ten thousands’ in it, eg: 1,060,000.

          Putting a six in all of the positions fulfilled the question’s requirements without actually proving whether or not they understood the question.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          2 days ago

          The number one in 10,000 is in the 10 thousands place. In the child’s answer, the number 6 is in the 10 thousands place, which isn’t clear since they’re all 6’s, but the bracketed number here is the 10 thousands place [6]6,666