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Tech/Engineering - Computers: Software / Calculators | | English term or phrase: Origin of calculators | | hello, someone could please help with this phrase... "It performed arithmetic when linked dials were turned". |
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1 hr confidence:  peer agreement (net): +1 | origin of calculators adding machine
Explanation:
adding machine, arithmometer, comptometer - these are different names of a mechanical computing machine where calculations are performed by turning a handle which rotates interconnected discs with numbers
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Note added at 2 hrs (2012-02-05 07:41:00 GMT)
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sorry, disks, of course
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Note added at 2 hrs (2012-02-05 07:42:41 GMT)
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See pictures at: Arithmometer – Wikipedia
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Ein Arithmometer ist eine mechanische Rechenmaschine, auf die der Franzose Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar (1785-1870) im Jahre 1820 ein Patent erhielt ...
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