BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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What could you do with Napier’s Bones?
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Multiply
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Add
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Subtract
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Divide
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Napier’s bones, also called Napier’s rods, are numbered rods which can be used to perform multiplication of any number by a number 2-9.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
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