I have the same exact question:(
The decimal point was invented by John Napier.
The decimal point was invented between 1550 and 1617.
It is not a question of invention. The procedure follows from the fact that a decimal number is simply a way of representing a number in such a way that the place value of each digit is ten times that of the digit to its right.
India invented the use of the 0 as a place holder and so the decimal system.
greek
It was not discovered but invented.
Isaac Newton came up with the idea of who invented gravity.
YES
A mathematician named Simon Stevin invented the decimal point in the late 1500s. Stevin was from the Flemish population of Belgium.
Hindus of India
to do point numbers.