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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.
The decimal point was invented by John Napier.
The decimal point was invented between 1550 and 1617.
A percent is simply a decimal number with the decimal point moved two places to the left.A percent is simply a decimal number with the decimal point moved two places to the left.A percent is simply a decimal number with the decimal point moved two places to the left.A percent is simply a decimal number with the decimal point moved two places to the left.
to do point numbers.
Move the decimal point two places to the right - inserting 0s if required.Move the decimal point two places to the right - inserting 0s if required.Move the decimal point two places to the right - inserting 0s if required.Move the decimal point two places to the right - inserting 0s if required.
You actually move the decimal point two places.
It moves the decimal point two places to the right.
As there is no decimal point in your set of numbers it is impossible to round it to three decimal places.
Move the decimal point three places to the right.
Three. Count number of zeros. If multiply decimal by 100 move decimal point 2 places, etc.
A mathematician named Simon Stevin invented the decimal point in the late 1500s. Stevin was from the Flemish population of Belgium.