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The History Of Computers
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A computer is a machine built to do routine calculations with speed,
reliability, and ease, greatly simplifying processes that without them would be
a much longer, more drawn out process.
Since their introduction in the 1940's. Computers have b .... Middle of Term Paper
... to help Pascal's father, who was a tax
collector" (Buchsbaum 13).
However, in 1671, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz invented a computer that
could not only add but, multiply. Multiplication was quite a step to be taken
by a computer because until then, the only thing a computer could do was add.
The computer multiplied by successive adding and shifting (Guides 45).
Perhaps the first actual computer was made by Charles Babbage. He
explains himself rather well with the following quote:
"One evening I was sitting in the rooms of the Analytical Society at
Cambridge with a table full of logarithms lying open before me. Another member
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