let's let 1 small bead stand for 0.0001.....

Question

Let's let 1 small bead stand for 0.0001, or 1/10,000. Show simple drawings of bundled beads so that  the way of organizing the beads corresponds to the way we write the following numbers:

 

0.0028

 

0.012

Answer 1

0.0001 is 1 bead

0.0028 is 28 beads

 

0.0001 is 1 bead

0.0120 is 120 beads