COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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A person who conducts calculations
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A person who is very loud
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A person who doesn’t sleep
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A person who lies
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Detailed explanation-1: -The term “computer", in use from the early 17th century (the first known written reference dates from 1613), meant “one who computes": a person performing mathematical calculations, before electronic computers became commercially available.
Detailed explanation-2: -The word computer is derived from the Latin word ‘computare’, which means ‘to calculate’, ‘to count’, ‘to think’, or ‘to sum up’.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first use of the word “computer” was recorded in 1613, referring to a person who carried out calculations, or computations, and the word continued to be used in that sense until the middle of the 20th century.
Detailed explanation-4: -"Computer” was originally a job title: it was used to describe those human beings (predominantly women) whose job it was to perform the repetitive calculations required to compute such things as navigational tables, tide charts, and planetary positions for astronomical almanacs.