Schools - what is the place value of digit 4 in the product of 20.36 and 40.1?

I'm guessing that "digit 4" means the thousands place? (in decimal, I think of digit 1 as the ones place, digit 2 the tens place, etc.) There's nothing there, if that's the case, since the product is less than 1,000. Or are they counting digits from left to right? The teacher (or workbook) worded the problem very poorly.