That was the view of Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish naturalist, born three centuries ago this week, who is better remembered for devising the system used to this day to classify living organisms.

他最著名的成就是发明了动植物的分类体系，这个体系直到今天都还在使用。 本周恰好是他的三百岁诞辰。

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Ignoring a clunky numerical system and devising his own, he demonstrated the nature of infinity and calculated a value for pi.

他抛弃了繁琐的数字系统并自创了一套，同时揭示了“无穷大”的性质并计算出了圆周率的数值[2]。

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The supervision system had experienced one and a half year from devising, debugging to operation.

该系统从设计开发、调试安装到投入运行，先后经历了一年零六个月。

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Office suites will host startup companies, including one devising a system for cultivating algae as biofuel, another producing a type of pavement that lets rainwater seep into the ground instead of flooding sewers.

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Tesco, Britain's largest supermarket chain, was able to take the lead in online groceries by devising a fairly simple system: goods ordered over the internet are picked from the shelves of the nearest supermarket and delivered to homes within set time slots.

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If Germany wants to save the euro it will have to accept greater risk- and burden-sharing, not least by mutualising some of the euro zone's debt and devising a Europe-wide system to stabilise banks.

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