The History of Computer
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Table of Contents The History of Computer 1 Who was the father of computer? 2 THE FIVE GENERATIONS OF COMPUTER 3 What computer was produced by J.Presper Eckert and John Mauchly 4 A Description Of The Device 4
The History of Computer
1. The Abacus:
Is a calculating tool used primarily in parts of Asia for performing arithmetic processes? The Chinese abacus was developed about 5000 years ago. It was built out of wood and beads. It could be held and carried around easily. The abacus was in use centuries before the adoption of the written modern numeral system and is still widely used by merchants, traders and clerks in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere. The user of an abacus is called an abacist.
2. The Quipu:
Is a set of cords and knots tied together, most of them were made of cotton and dyed in one or more colors. Each of the pendants and the knots tied on it represented numbers and the colors had their own representatives. It was invented by Incas for the purpose of recording and accounting.
3. The Napier’s bones
Napier’s bones is an abacus created by John Napier for calculation of products and quotients of numbers that was based on Arab mathematics and lattice multiplication used by Matrakci Nasuh in the Umdet-ul Hisab and Fibonacci writing in the Liber Abaci
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Who was the father of computer?
Charles Babbage
Why?
He is the father of the computer because he invented a counting machine called The Different Engine.Babbage invented a 'counting machine ' called The Difference Engine. This thing was spectacular. In those days it took a lot of people to count thing...taxes, bankers, areas of finance and markets...all about counting large amounts. Charles Babbage created his Difference Engine and it actually worked. He could put a couple of number
Table of Contents The History of Computer 1 Who was the father of computer? 2 THE FIVE GENERATIONS OF COMPUTER 3 What computer was produced by J.Presper Eckert and John Mauchly 4 A Description Of The Device 4
The History of Computer
1. The Abacus:
Is a calculating tool used primarily in parts of Asia for performing arithmetic processes? The Chinese abacus was developed about 5000 years ago. It was built out of wood and beads. It could be held and carried around easily. The abacus was in use centuries before the adoption of the written modern numeral system and is still widely used by merchants, traders and clerks in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere. The user of an abacus is called an abacist.
2. The Quipu:
Is a set of cords and knots tied together, most of them were made of cotton and dyed in one or more colors. Each of the pendants and the knots tied on it represented numbers and the colors had their own representatives. It was invented by Incas for the purpose of recording and accounting.
3. The Napier’s bones
Napier’s bones is an abacus created by John Napier for calculation of products and quotients of numbers that was based on Arab mathematics and lattice multiplication used by Matrakci Nasuh in the Umdet-ul Hisab and Fibonacci writing in the Liber Abaci
.
Who was the father of computer?
Charles Babbage
Why?
He is the father of the computer because he invented a counting machine called The Different Engine.Babbage invented a 'counting machine ' called The Difference Engine. This thing was spectacular. In those days it took a lot of people to count thing...taxes, bankers, areas of finance and markets...all about counting large amounts. Charles Babbage created his Difference Engine and it actually worked. He could put a couple of number
Bibliography: (14 January 2013).The Abacus. Retrieved 15 November 2012 from the World Wide Web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus (2012). The father of computer. Retrieved 15 November 2012 from the World Wide Web: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001335.htm (8 December 2012). What computer was produced by J.Presper Eckert and John Mauchly? Retrieved 20 October 2012 from the world wide web of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Presper_Eckert