Stevin was the first to recommend the use of impersonal accounts in the national household.

斯特文是第一个建议在国民家庭中使用非个人账户的人。

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It is something he wrote about in a book he wrote with Stevin Hoover, Mark Whitacre Against All Odds.

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It is only now, 400 years after the invention of the decimal system by Simon Stevin, a forgotten Belgian tradesman, that counting time in tens has become an economic imperative.

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