FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS

HISTORY OF COMPUTERS

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

Who invented the Pascaline?

A	Blaise Pascal
B	Charles Babbage
C	Herman Hollerith
D	Howard H. Aiken

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -The Pascaline was designed and built by the French mathematician-philosopher Blaise Pascal between 1642 and 1644. It could only do addition and subtraction, with numbers being entered by manipulating its dials.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Pascaline was designed and built by the French mathematician-philosopher Blaise Pascal between 1642 and 1644.

Detailed explanation-3: -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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