FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -Leibniz Calculating MachineIn 1671 Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716) invented a calculating machine which was a major advance in mechanical calculating.

Detailed explanation-2: -Step Reckoner, a calculating machine designed (1671) and built (1673) by the German mathematician-philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz. The Step Reckoner expanded on the French mathematician-philosopher Blaise Pascal’s ideas and did multiplication by repeated addition and shifting.

Detailed explanation-3: -The machine can: add or subtract an 8-digit number to/from a 16-digit number, multiply two 8-digit numbers to get a 16-digit result, divide a 16-digit number by an 8-digit divisor.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Leibniz calculator is also called a Leibniz wheel or stepped drum. Gottfried Leibniz designed a calculating machine which is called as Step Reckoner. Leibniz’s calculator is also known as the first true four-function calculator.