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Pascal developed the Pascaline, a mechanical calculator associated with his father’s tax-accounting work.
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A mechanism that performs arithmetic is different from a general programmable computer. Currency units and mechanical carries made the engineering problem concrete.
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Pascal developed the Pascaline, a mechanical calculator associated with his father’s tax-accounting work.
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- J. J. O’Connor and E. F. Robertson — Blaise Pascal, MacTutor, University of St Andrews — Biography, Pascaline paragraphs
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- J. J. O’Connor and E. F. Robertson — Blaise Pascal, MacTutor, University of St Andrews — Biography, Pascaline paragraphs
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