COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
EVOLUTION OF COMPUTER SOFTWARE
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Question
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Pascaline was invented by ____
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Sir John Napier
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Blaise Pascal
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Thomas Alfa Edison
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Herman Hollerith
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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. It could only do addition and subtraction, with numbers being entered by manipulating its dials.
Detailed explanation-2: -Between 1642 and 1644, Pascal conceived and constructed a calculating device, the Pascaline, to help his father-who in 1639 had been appointed intendant (local administrator) at Rouen-in his tax computations.
Detailed explanation-3: -A Life of Science In 1641, at the age of 18, Pascal built his first arithmetical machine, an instrument which, eight years later, he further improved and called the Pascaline.
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