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| Examples: | Subtract 498 from 884 | Subtract 1,924,005 from 3,402,731 | 
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|             | The fifth step is to subtract 4(1,924,005)
        from 2 (1,482,731) in the thousands' column. Again subtract one from the ten thousands'  The remainder now is 1,478,731 (fig 1). | |||||||||||
| fig 1 |