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engineering, both theoretical and practical. He also translated various 
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booklet published in 1585 by the Flemish mathematician Simon Stevin. ... service 
to Maurice of Nassau (in Maurice (stadholder of The Netherlands): Military career
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issued by the .... change in book-keeping, as the fractions converted into English 
pence, and made the maths ..... Simon Stevin (or Stevinius), a Dutch 
mathematician, established a scale to convert all fractions to decimals in 1585. 
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long wanted all of our number system converted to it. Thus ...... J. Struik, Simon 
Stevin and the Decimal Fractions, The ...... 1585. Simon Stevin, Dutch 
mathematician, published his De. Thiende, which resulted in decimal fractions 
becoming a. [DOC] [TLE] H.math - SlideShare [PAR] May 15, 2015 ... History of mathematics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A proof from ... 
Summa Arithmetica was also the first known book printed in Italy to contain .... 
date from 1800 to 1600 BC, and cover topics which include fractions, algebra, ..... 
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denominator and ... centi c 10-2 twostep metric conversion, you must always 
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formats:. [DOC] [TLE] Improper fraction | Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing - eBooks ... [PAR] In mathematics the set of all numbers which can be expressed in the form a/b, 
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as follows: ..... First, convert \tfrac35 into fifteenths by multiplying both the 
numerator and ..... Simon Stevin (1548-1620), then settled in the Northern 
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149 Dutch Gielis van der Hoecke, 1537 150 German Michael Stifel, 1544, 1545, 
1553 . ... German Christophorus Clavius, 1608 161 Belgium Simon Stevin, 1585 
162, ... Fractions 274 TheSolidus 275 Signs of Decimal Fractions 276-89 Stevin's
... [DOC] [TLE] Improving an Imperfect Metric System [PAR] formulated plans to convert to the metric system. Imperial weights ... Hertz, who 
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commenced with the Dutch mathematician Simon Stevin's invention of the deci- 
mal point in 1585. February .....

Question: In 1585 Dutch mathematician Simon Stevin first converted fractions to this format
Answer: decimals