what are the early uses of decimals

John Napier,a Scottish mathematician,made the common use of decimal number system in 1916 A.D.
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He worked with logarithims and exponents.  logs are very small numbers and exponents are very large numbers.  He worked with scientific notation and could represent these numbers.
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