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Join us on a journey through time as we explore this ancient mathematical tool that predates calculators... 🔍 Dive into the fascinating history of the #Abacus!
12 sty 2024 · Discover the intriguing story of who invented the calculator, from Blaise Pascal's early designs to today's digital marvels. Explore the calculator's evolution!
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (/ ɛrəˈtɒsθəniːz /; Greek: Ἐρατοσθένης [eratostʰénɛːs]; c. 276 BC – c. 195/194 BC) was an Ancient Greek polymath: a mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. He was a man of learning, becoming the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria.
12 mar 2021 · Researchers at UCL have solved a major piece of the puzzle that makes up the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism, a hand-powered mechanical device that was used to predict astronomical events.
Employed by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Mesopotamians, the earliest calculating devices were systems of writing that used shorthand to denote specific and often large quantities. These written forms differed between cultures but usually involved groups of lines representing single units, with modified characters for intervals of five or ten.
24 paź 2024 · Antikythera mechanism, ancient Greek mechanical device made of bronze and used to calculate and display information about astronomical phenomena. The Antikythera mechanism had the first known set of scientific dials or scales and was the most complex mechanism until medieval clocks 1,000 years later.
21 kwi 2024 · The first mechanical calculator appeared in 1642, the creation of French intellectual and mathematics whizz kid Blaise Pascal as "a device that will eventually perform all four arithmetic operations without relying on human intelligence."
