COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
EARLY COMPUTING DEVICES
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Question
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What was the Step Reckoner machine able to do that other devices could not?
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Add, subtract, multiply, and divide
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Calculate trigonometric calculations
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Help soldiers send messages to each other during war
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Change numbers and words into binary code
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Pascaline, also called Arithmetic Machine, the first calculator or adding machine to be produced in any quantity and actually used. The Pascaline was designed and built by the French mathematician-philosopher Blaise Pascal between 1642 and 1644.
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