Raghu rightly writes:

> There was this Mathematics Olympiad Quiz organized when I was in my 7th
>  grade (1987) and they asked this same question. Only difference is that it
>  was 6 digit number in that question. No surprises there too that ALL got it
>  wrong..
>
>  The reason why we say 3 as the last digit in this case is because while
>  writing down the numbers, we usually start putting the ","  starting from
>  the right most digit and ends in the left most digit (for ex 123456789 will
>  be represented as 12,34,56,789 or 123,456,789) and hence the reason why
they
>  say that the last digit is the left most digit.
>
>  Even in the case of 346.1, the last digit will still remain 3 because we
>  don't put "," option for digits below 0 or after decimal (however small
they
>  are) and the order still goes from right to left.

OK, now that we've got that question resolved, which digit in the string
346.1 is the topmost digit? And which is the bottommost?

Wirt Atmar

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