BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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John Napier
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Albert Napier
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Alex Napier
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John William Napier
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Detailed explanation-1: -Napier’s bones is a manually-operated calculating device created by John Napier of Merchiston, Scotland for the calculation of products and quotients of numbers. The method was based on lattice multiplication, and also called rabdology, a word invented by Napier. Napier published his version in 1617.
Detailed explanation-2: -Napier was a Scottish mathematician who lived from 1550 to 1617. He worked for more than twenty years to develop his theory and tables of what he called logarithms, a word he derived from two Greek roots: logos, meaning word, or study, or reasoning, or in Napier’s use, “reckoning”, and arithmos, meaning “number”.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Scot, John Napier, invented these strips (originally made from bone) about 400 years ago to help calculate multiplication and division.