Monday, November 23, 2009

Pascaline

Pascaline
  • Developed by Blaise Pascal(1623-1662) in 1642 to help his father's tax work.
  • Pascaline contain eight dials, gears and wheels.
  • Pascaline was capable of performing additions and subtractions up to 8 digits.
  • Pascaline could add and subtract by the movement of wheels, not used for division and multiplication.

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