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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A calculating machine invented by a French Mathematician to help his father a tax collector.
A
Calculating Clock
B
Abacus
C
Pascaline
D
Stepped Reckoner
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Pascal’s calculator (also known as the arithmetic machine or Pascaline) is a mechanical calculator invented by Blaise Pascal in 1642. Pascal was led to develop a calculator by the laborious arithmetical calculations required by his father’s work as the supervisor of taxes in Rouen.

Detailed explanation-2: -Pascaline, also called Arithmetic Machine, the first calculator or adding machine to be produced in any quantity and actually used. The Pascaline was designed and built by the French mathematician-philosopher Blaise Pascal between 1642 and 1644.

Detailed explanation-3: -Blaise Pascal laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities, formulated what came to be known as Pascal’s principle of pressure, and propagated a religious doctrine that taught the experience of God through the heart rather than through reason.

Detailed explanation-4: -Pascal invented the first digital calculator to help his father with his work collecting taxes. He worked on it for three years between 1642 and 1645. The device, called the Pascaline, resembled a mechanical calculator of the 1940s.

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