a European mathematician did it two or three centuries ago. before then they used fractions instead of decimals.
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Individual digits within a number have place values, not whole numbers.
It is the tenths' place.
There is none. Place values go on forever.
the question is not when it was invented but if it ever was invented in the first place...
It is in the 1000's place and its face value is 4000