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COMPUTER
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Planetary movements
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Bombing targets
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Stock prices
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Census data
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Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is Hybrid Computers. Hybrid computers are used to control air traffic and radar of national defense.
Detailed explanation-2: -The title of “first commercially available general-purpose computer” probably goes to Britain’s Ferranti Mark I for its sale of its first Mark I computer to Manchester University. The Mark 1 was a refinement of the experimental Manchester “Baby” and Manchester Mark 1 computers, also at Manchester University.
Detailed explanation-3: -Built between 1943-1945 at the University of Pennsylvania by engineers John Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly, ENIAC was created to calculate artillery tables-the projectile trajectories of explosive shells-for the US Army Ballistics Research Laboratory.