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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
He was the first person to come up with the idea of a computer that could be programmed.
A
Benjamin Franklin
B
Thomas Edison
C
Charles Babbage
D
Alexander Graham Bell
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -English mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage is credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer. During the mid-1830s Babbage developed plans for the Analytical Engine . Although it was never completed, the Analytical Engine would have had most of the basic elements of the present-day computer.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Difference Engine, the first automatic computer, was designed and built by Charles Babbage in 1822. It has the ability to carry out various mathematical operations and deliver tangible copies of the outcomes. With the aid of Ada Lovelace, Babbage developed the Difference Engine.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to Babbage’s own account, it was while looking over a table of logarithms he knew “to be full of mistakes” that the idea of a machine to “recalculate numerical tables without error” came to him. Infatuated with the idea, he drew up plans for what would become known as his “Difference Engine No.

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