COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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The Stepped Reckoner was the first device that could____
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Read punch cards
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Print calculations
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Add, Subtract, Multiply, & Divide
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Add decimals
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz constructs the Stepped Reckoner, the first calculator able to carry out all four basic arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division).
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1671 Gottfried Leibniz, a German mathematician, invented a machine called the stepped reckoner that could multiply 5 digit and 12 digit numbers yielding up to 16 digit number.
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