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It is thought that decimal numbers were used by the Elamite dynasty (Iran) approx 5000 (+/- 500) years ago.

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It is thought that decimal numbers were used by the Elamite dynasty (Iran) approx 5000 (+/- 500) years ago.

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The decimal system was invented by the what empire?

It is thought that decimal numbers were used by the Elamite dynasty (Iran) approx 5000 (+/- 500) years ago.


Who were the first people to use the zero and the decimal system?

The first people to use the decimal system and the number zero WERE NOT THE CHINESE! I am learning about this in school. The ancient Hindu's invented them during the Gupta Empire.


What nation invented decimal system?

India invented the use of the 0 as a place holder and so the decimal system.


Who invented decimal system?

Hindus of India


Who invented Dewey decimal system?

Melvil Dewy


When was zero first used in the decimal system?

THe Gupta Empire


The decimal system we use today is the product of this empire's discovery?

This question has no answer, for the decimal system of counting has been in use for millennia, from the Mediterranean to China. Christopher Ellis, Though you are correct that the Decimal system has been used for a long time, everything starts somewhere. In this case the Decimal System started in the Gupta Empire. Sorry that a 16 year old has more knowledge than someone in they're late 50's to early 60's. answered by Coyote G. Farmer


Who invented the decimal number system?

Melvil Dewey created the Dewey Decimal system. It is a classification system used by libraries, and not what is meant in the question. The decimal number system is the number system that we all use on a daily basis; it was invented by a succession of Arab and Hindu mathematicians beginning about 1400 years ago.


What man invented the decimal system?

I believe nobody is positive about WHO invented it but it was first used in ancient India


Where was the metric system invented?

The French National Assembly commissioned the Academy of Science to create the decimal based system of measurement in 1790.


Who first invented the Decimal Number System?

Mathematicians in ancient India s invented the decimal system around in the 9th century CE. It was later adopted by Persian and Arabic mathematicians and spread to the western world by the High Middle Ages.


Who were the first to use a decimal system?

i think the answer to which empire developed the number system we use today was the perisan empire because they developed so many things not that many thing and you know what i mean