History of computer
BRIEF HISTORY OF COMPUTER In the hold days, pebbles and stones were used for counting items, and marking on the well was the convection for storing the counts. The discovery of zero by Indian mathematicians laid the foundation of the number system. Abacus, the first manual calculating device was developed in and around 3000 BC and used in many countries particularly as toys for learning while playing. It uses beads to represent decimal numbers. The Japanese call it SOROBAN. In early seventeenth century, john Napier, a Scottish scientist who practiced mathematics as a hobby, developed another calculating device known as 'Napier's Bones'. He used a set of eleven rods called 'bones' with numbers carved on them. Napier is also well known for development of logarithms in 1614. This idea of logarithm (combination of two Greek words: LOGOS means ratios and ARITHMOS means numbers) by Napier, gave birth to a calculating device called 'SLIDE RULE' which was used...