It is not. In the decimal system each column to the right is valued at powers of ten starting at zero and increasing as you move to the left...in a four digit number...the columns are valued at...
10^3, 10^2, 10^1, 10^0 which corresponds to...
1000, 1000, 10, 1 in this case the first digit is equal to
5(1000)=5000 the value of the last digit is 5(1)=5
So the first 5 is 1000 times as great as the second 5...
