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    Abacus: Napier Bone

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    The document summarizes several early calculating devices: The abacus is an ancient calculating tool still used today to teach numeracy. Napier's bones were created by John Napier to aid in multiplication and division calculations. The slide rule is a mechanical analog computer used for scientific functions like roots and logarithms. Blaise Pascal invented the Pascaline, the first mechanical calculator, to help his father with addition and subtraction in tax collection. Gottfried Leibniz's stepped reckoner was the first calculator that could perform all four basic arithmetic operations. Joseph Marie Jacquard's loom simplified weaving complex textile patterns using punched cards. Charles Babbage's difference engine was an automatic mechanical calculator for polynomial functions.

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    The document summarizes several early calculating devices: The abacus is an ancient calculating tool still used today to teach numeracy. Napier's bones were created by John Napier to aid in multiplication and division calculations. The slide rule is a mechanical analog computer used for scientific functions like roots and logarithms. Blaise Pascal invented the Pascaline, the first mechanical calculator, to help his father with addition and subtraction in tax collection. Gottfried Leibniz's stepped reckoner was the first calculator that could perform all four basic arithmetic operations. Joseph Marie Jacquard's loom simplified weaving complex textile patterns using punched cards. Charles Babbage's difference engine was an automatic mechanical calculator for polynomial functions.

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    The document summarizes several early calculating devices: The abacus is an ancient calculating tool still used today to teach numeracy. Napier's bones were created by John Napier to aid in multiplication and division calculations. The slide rule is a mechanical analog computer used for scientific functions like roots and logarithms. Blaise Pascal invented the Pascaline, the first mechanical calculator, to help his father with addition and subtraction in tax collection. Gottfried Leibniz's stepped reckoner was the first calculator that could perform all four basic arithmetic operations. Joseph Marie Jacquard's loom simplified weaving complex textile patterns using punched cards. Charles Babbage's difference engine was an automatic mechanical calculator for polynomial functions.

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    Abacus

    The abacus (plural abaci or abacuses), also called a counting


    frame, is a calculating tool that has been in use since ancient
    times and is still in use today. Around the world, abacuses have
    been used in pre-schools and elementary schools as an aid in
    teaching the numeral system and arithmetic.

    Napier bone
    Napier's bones is a manually-operated calculating device
    created by John Napier of Merchiston, Scotland for
    the calculation of products and quotients of numbers. It was
    invented in 1617 AD.

    Slide rule
    The slide rule, or slipstick, is a mechanical analog computer.
    The slide rule is used mainly for multiplication and division, and
    also for "scientific" functions such as roots, logarithms and
    trigonometry, but usually not for addition or subtraction.

    Pascaline
    Pascaline, also called Arithmetic Machine, the
    first calculator or adding machine to be produced in any quantity
    and actually used. The Pascaline was designed and built by the
    French mathematician-philosopher Blaise Pascal between 1642 .
    It could only do addition and subtraction. Pascal invented the
    machine for his father, a tax collector.
    Stepped reckoner
    The step reckoner (or stepped reckoner) was
    a digital mechanical calculator invented by the German
    mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz around 1673 and
    completed in 1694. It was the first calculator that could perform all
    four arithmetic operations.[2] The machine performs multiplication
    by repeated addition, and division by repeated subtraction

    Jacquard Loom
    The Jacquard machine (French: [ʒakaʁ]) is a device fitted to
    a loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with
    such complex patterns as brocade, damask The machine was
    invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1804 The machine was
    controlled by a "chain of cards"; a number of punched cards laced
    together into a continuous sequence.[6] Multiple rows of holes
    were punched on each card, with one complete card
    corresponding to one row of the design.

    Difference engine
    A difference engine, a calculating machine designed in the
    1820s, was first created by Charles Babbage. Difference engines
    are automatic mechanical calculators designed to
    tabulate polynomial functions. The machine is able to store one
    decimal number in each column.

    Analytical engine
     Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose
    computer designed by English mathematician and computer
    pioneer Charles Babbage.[2][3] It was first described in 1837 as the
    successor to Babbage's difference engine, which was a design for
    a simpler mechanical computer.[4] The Analytical Engine was to be
    a general-purpose, fully program-controlled, automatic
    mechanical digital computer. It would be able to perform any
    calculation set before it.

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