The answer may surprise you!Image via unsplash.comMan has been calculating since ancient history. Even in comic strips, we see how man-made four vertical slashes and then a diagonal slash to indicate a count of five.The earliest \u201cmachine\u201d to help man do arithmetic was the abacus. The abacus has been used in Europe, the Near East, China, and Russia for centuries. They are still used in some areas today.The abacus is constructed with a series of rods held in a wooden frame. Each rod has moveable beads which represent digits. A number is set up and then a mathematical operation is performed involving a second number.The first important development in modern computing came in the 1800s. Charles Babbage, born in London and educated at Cambridge, was a first-class mathematician. He is called the \u201cFather of the Computer\u201d because he developed the first mechanical computer, which led to the modern electronic computer. The machine was called the difference engine. It was a mechanical calculating machine that used addition to calculate complex mathematical functions. It operated in the decimal system and was powered by cranking a handle. Babbage\u2019s design was flawless, but the metalworkers of that time could not produce the gears and other parts to the tolerances that were required. Years later, in the 1980s, the Science Museum in London used Babbage\u2019s plans to build a working section of the difference engine. In 1991, an entire functioning difference engine was built from Babbage\u2019s original plans. The required tolerances were achieved, and the finished computer was a success proving that Babbage\u2019s machine would have worked.Babbage went on to design a more advanced machine, the analytical engine, which could perform all four of the major mathematical functions \u2014 addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. This machine had all the essential parts and functions of modern\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
La r\u00e9ponse peut vous surprendre! Image via unsplash.comL'homme calcule depuis l'histoire ancienne. M\u00eame dans les bandes dessin\u00e9es, nous voyons comment quatre barres obliques verticales artificielles, puis [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}