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If you mean the Dewey Decimal Classification, a system of organizing library books by subject: that was invented by Melvil Dewey in 1876.

If instead you mean the decimal-based metric system: the impetus for the invention came from King Louis XVI of France in the 1790s, but the idea itself is at least a century older than that.

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