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    The document discusses the history of calculators from ancient times to modern day. It begins with the abacus, which originated in Asia Minor around 5000 years ago. In 1642, Blaise Pascal invented the Pascaline, an early mechanical calculator. Later inventors improved on these ideas, with Wilhelm von Leibniz creating a machine that could multiply in 1694. Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar then invented the arithometer in 1820, which could perform all basic arithmetic functions. Modern electronic calculators began being developed in the early 20th century, with inventions like the Boolean algebra computer by Atanasoff and Berry in 1903 and Vannevar Bush's differential equation solver in 1931. Konrad Zuse

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    The document discusses the history of calculators from ancient times to modern day. It begins with the abacus, which originated in Asia Minor around 5000 years ago. In 1642, Blaise Pascal invented the Pascaline, an early mechanical calculator. Later inventors improved on these ideas, with Wilhelm von Leibniz creating a machine that could multiply in 1694. Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar then invented the arithometer in 1820, which could perform all basic arithmetic functions. Modern electronic calculators began being developed in the early 20th century, with inventions like the Boolean algebra computer by Atanasoff and Berry in 1903 and Vannevar Bush's differential equation solver in 1931. Konrad Zuse

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    The document discusses the history of calculators from ancient times to modern day. It begins with the abacus, which originated in Asia Minor around 5000 years ago. In 1642, Blaise Pascal invented the Pascaline, an early mechanical calculator. Later inventors improved on these ideas, with Wilhelm von Leibniz creating a machine that could multiply in 1694. Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar then invented the arithometer in 1820, which could perform all basic arithmetic functions. Modern electronic calculators began being developed in the early 20th century, with inventions like the Boolean algebra computer by Atanasoff and Berry in 1903 and Vannevar Bush's differential equation solver in 1931. Konrad Zuse

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    history of Calculators You must already be familiar with a tool called a calculator .

    Calculator is a tool are relatively small but have a huge benefit in doing the calculations , both ordinary calculation , accounting calculations and statistical calculations . Do you know how the history of these calculators ? Let us refer to the story below ..

    Around 5000 years ago , a traditional calculators and mechanical calculator , Abacus , appeared in Asia Minor . Well , in an era that is considered as the beginning of a computing machine . Abacus allows users to perform calculations using sliding grains arranged on a shelf . Along with the emergence of a pencil and paper , especially in Europe , Abacus lost its popularity .

    In 1642 , Blaise Pascal who at that time was 18 years old , found what he called a numerical wheel calculator to help his father make tax calculations . This tool uses eight named Pascaline serrated wheel to add numbers up to eight digits .

    In 1694 , a German mathematician and philosopher , Wilhelm von Leibniz Gottfred improved the Pascaline by creating a machine that can multiply . Just as the Pascaline , a mechanical tool also works by using the wheels serrations .

    In 1820 , Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar find a machine that could perform the four basic arithmetic functions , addition, subtraction , multiplication , and division . With the invention of a tool called arithometer this , the mechanical calculator was gaining popularity at the time . With his ability and also more practical than the previous calculator , arithometer widely used until World War I. In 1892 William Burroughs , a former teller , introduces a fairly successful printing calculator powered hand though .

    In the next period , some engineers still continue to develop other inventions . In 1903 , John V. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry tried to make a computer that uses Boolean algebra , a mathematical calculation that can be expressed as true or false .

    In 1931 , Vannevar Bush created a calculator to solve differential equations . The machine can complete the calculations which have been considered complicated . The machine is very large and heavy as hundreds of teeth and shaft needed to perform calculations .

    In 1935 , a German construction engineer named Konrad Zuse built a mechanical calculator to handle the math calculations in his profession . Shortly after his success , Zuse began construction on a programmed electronic equipment which he completed in 1938 .

    Currently , you are able to use a calculator in the form that is simpler and easier to carry. We should be grateful to the inventors , because thanks to them we can calculate mathematically a variety of things and also easier .

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