COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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In what year was the Pascaline invented?
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1876
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1633
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1642
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1842
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Pascaline was designed and built by the French mathematician-philosopher Blaise Pascal between 1642 and 1644.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: The first automatic calculator was invented by mathematician Blaise Pascal in 1642 in France. Pascal’s father was a tax collector who was always working with numbers, and the calculator made it easier for him to do his work.
Detailed explanation-3: -The original compact calculator was the abacus, developed in China in the ninth century. The young French mathematician Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) invented the first adding machine in 1642, a clever device driven by gears and capable of performing mechanical addition and subtraction.
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