2007-06-02 00:49:54 · 13 answers · asked by iffi_213 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
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2007-06-02 05:39:53 · answer #1 · answered by Bluebell 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Originally a "computer" was a person who did mathematical computations. Just as a baker is a person who bakes so a computer was a person who did computations. Human computers were used by the British Admiralty for example to prepare time and tide tables, etc.
Charles Babbage (1792-1871) was an English mathematician who did work as a "computer". He proposed a mechanical machines for doing complex and repetitive mathematical computations. Although he never built such a machine the principles he worked out for the machines were worked upon by others leading to mechanical and ultimately to electronic computers.
2007-06-02 01:09:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mr Abacus.
Back in the days of old.
He was actually a speed freak chinaman who tweaked on playing with beads all day.
As he sat on the Great Wall Counting his beads he had an ooopsy and scattered them everywhere. He found that collecting them up on a few coat hangers was easy. He also found that collecting 8 at a time and calling it 1 was even better. Thus the computer was born and it also explains why the chinese alphabet only contains 3 letters or 12 or whatever OK.
2007-06-02 00:52:26 · answer #3 · answered by grainy33 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on your definition of the computer, if you mean an apparatus that's used to compute mathematical solutions, then the abacus wins out.
All this babble about Babbage is about as true as Al Gore inventing the internet and me finding the g-spot.
2007-06-02 08:24:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Humans have been computing numbers, answers, probibilities and the like for thousands of years. This pre dates recorded history. So, the answer to your question is either human comprehension itself or an influence upon the pre-historical human minds causing the quantam leap to numerical or logical reasoning.
2007-06-02 10:52:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it depends on the type of the computer ur referring to yeah they said abacus but thats the first type of what they called computer because that is how they compute things
but the real computers was made by charles babbage why do u think he called father of computer?of course with the reason!
2007-06-02 01:17:39 · answer #6 · answered by sexylicious body 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alan Turing
2007-06-02 01:01:19 · answer #7 · answered by suesysgoddess 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Al Gore.
2007-06-02 01:26:04 · answer #8 · answered by open4one 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
abacus
then
charles babbage
not i,4 sure
2007-06-02 01:00:20 · answer #9 · answered by abhinav 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the computer inventor lol
2007-06-02 00:54:36 · answer #10 · answered by drlove020861 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋