Who was Blaise Pascal ?
why did he invented pascaline?
why did he named it as pascaline?
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Pascal's calculator (also known as the arithmetic machine or Pascaline) 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.In mathematics, he is known for contributing Pascal's triangle and probability theory. He also invented an early digital calculator and a roulette machine. In the field of physics, Blaise contributed to the study of atmospheric pressure by discovering that vacuums are real and exist in the real world.
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1) Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) Blaise Pascal was a French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, inventor, and theologian. In mathematics, he was an early pioneer in the fields of game theory and probability theory. In philosophy he was an early pioneer in existentialism.
2) Pascal's invention of the mechanical calculator in 1641 was borne out of a desire to help his father in collecting taxes. He was the second person known to have created a device of this kind.
3) In December of 1639, Pascal's father had moved the family to Rouen where he took a job as tax collector for the region. ... Until 1645, Pascal worked on improvements to the machine, which was called the Pascaline. (It resembled the mechanical calculators of the 1940s.)
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