D. Answer these questions.
1. How is an abacus different from Napier's Rods?
2. What is a Pascaline?
3. Who is called the Father of Modern Computers?
4. Which company later came to be known as IBM?
5. Differentiate between ENIAC and EDVAC.
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- Not only does the abacus have uses for many different cultures but it also has uses for the blind such as performing addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, square root, cubic root. ... -Napier's bones was invented to help you with multiplication.
- Pascaline Or Pascal's calculator is a mechanical calculator invented by Blaise Pascal in the mid 17th century. Pascal was led to develop a calculator by the laborious arithmetical calculations required by his father's work as the supervisor of taxes in Rouen.
- Alan Turing's
- The father of modern computing: Alan Turing's legacy. Alan Turing, the face of the new £50 note, is recognised as a key figure in Britain's codebreaking efforts at Bletchley Park during the second world war, a mathematical genius and even the father of modern computing and artificial intelligence.
- International Business Machines
- The company began in 1911, founded in Endicott, New York, as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and was renamed "International Business Machines" in 1924.
- EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) was the successor to ENIAC, was binary based, and used stored programs, and was also designed by Eckert and Mauchly, UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I) was the first commercial computer. It was designed by the same two men who designed ENIAC and EDVAC.
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