computer are achievable. Forerunners of the computer in one form or another have been with us for a long time. The Abacus‚a hand-held counting device that is still use throughout the Orient‚dates back to about 500 BC.The French scientist‚ Blaise Pascal Developed a mechanical Calculator in the middle of the 17th century that formed the basis for Calculators Manufactured well into the 20th Century. Credit for the concept of the modern computer goes to the British mathematician Charles Babbage
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MACHINE(PASCALINE) Blaise Pascal a French mathematician developed Ø mechanical calculating machine called Pascal’s calculating machine in 1642 A.D First real desktop calculating device that could add and Ø subtract. Construct of set of toothed wheels or gears. Ø Each wheel having 0 through 9. Ø Arithmetic operation performed by turning these wheels. Ø Concept still seen in conventional electric meter Ø and taxi meter‚ LEIBNITZ’S IMPROVED PASCAL MACHINE Pascal machine
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1ST GENERATION (MACHINE CODE): The first generation of codes used to program a computer‚ was called machine language or machine code‚ it is the only language a computer really understands‚ a sequence of 0s and 1s that the computer’s controls interprets as instructions‚ electrically. First-generation languages required the writing of long strings of binary numbers to represent such operations as “add‚” “subtract‚” “and compare.” Later improvements allowed octal‚ decimal‚ or hexadecimal representation
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Pascal vs Descartes Paper Pascal’s argument is fallible because he reaches the conclusion that we should “wager” God’s existence‚ rather than coming up with “proof” by using deductive reasoning like Descartes provides in his argument. These early 17th century philosophers both provided writings defending the validity of the Christian religion and of God’s existence. After the Protestant Reformation of 1517‚ the Catholic Church’s sanctity was questioned. Different religions sprouted across Europe
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” ― Socrates “We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then‚ is not an act‚ but a habit” ― Aristotle “The world is mere change‚ and this life‚ opinion.” ― Marcus Aurelius “Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much” ― Blaise Pascal "I think; therefore I am" ― Rene Descartes "The question is not‚ "Can they reason?" nor‚ "Can they talk?" but rather‚ "Can they suffer" ― Jeremy Bentham "Curiosity is the lust of the mind" ― Thomas Hobbes "Nothing great in the world
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carts to cars‚ from constantly being pinned down by gravity to air travel and from being confined to the earth to travel among the stars. There are many significant persons throughout history that have made ground breaking discoveries such as Blaise Pascal‚ Charles Babbage and Herman Hollerith which in turn laid the foundation for modern IT professionals such as Bill Gate and Steve Jobs. Information Technology (IT) involves more than just computer literacy; it also takes into account how computers
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(Long and Long 33C). This ancient device represents how far into history the desire of humans to use a machine for calculations goes. Another early relative of the computer was created in the seventeenth century by Blaise Pascal‚ a French mathematician (Long and Long 33C). Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand on June 19‚ 1623 and his family settled at Paris in 1629 (Fowlie). In 1642 the young prodigy developed what is now known as "Pascal’s Calculator" (or the "Pascaline") to speed calculations
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Deviation of Power “Justice and power must be brought together‚ so that whatever is just may be powerful‚ and whatever is powerful may be just” (Blaise Pascal). Power is an outstanding topic in this well crafted novella‚ Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption written by Stephen King. Andy Dufresene‚ a gentleman who carries himself well‚ was charged of a crime he did not commit. In Shawshank state penitentiary he faces challenges with the authority of the prison‚ Warden Samuel Norton
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Pascal’s Wager vs. the Ontological Argument Pascal’s Wager was a groundbreaking theory posed by the French philosopher‚ mathematician‚ and physicist Blaise Pascal. Pascal‚ who is said to be the father of modern probability‚ felt that that religion should be approached as a gamble. It was one of the first efforts to incorporate the concept of infinity. The wager stated that‚ even though the existence of God cannot be determined through reason‚ one should wager as though God exists‚ because living
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Thomas Fowler is a British journalist in his fifties who has been covering the French war in Vietnam for over two years. He has become a very jaded and cynical man. He meets Alden Pyle and finds him naïve. Throughout the book Fowler is often caught in lies and sometimes there may be speculation that he is lying to himself. Fowlers relationship with Vietnamese woman Phuong often fuels the conflict in the story‚ especially between Fowler and Pyle. Fowler is also used as a metaphor to describe the character
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