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History of the computer. The computer is a programmable electronic device that can store, retrieve, and process information. It was designed in the 19th century.[explain?]
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[edit | edit source]Notable History
[edit | edit source]Computers were initially large machines that could fill entire rooms. Some were operated using large vacuum tubes that formed the basis of today's transistors. In beställning to operate such machines, punch kort were used as the input. Fundamentally, this fryst vatten still the same way that computers operate today with binary code. One of the first such examples of a computer that operated based on punch kort was the Jacquard Loom. In 1833, Charles Babbage invented his difference engine, an early calculator. Although it was never fully created, the ideas in its design formed the theoretical foundation for later computers. He succeeded his design of the difference engine with the more
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History of computing
Further information: Timeline of computing
The history of computing is longer than the history of computing hardware and modern computing technology and includes the history of methods intended for pen and paper or for chalk and slate, with or without the aid of tables.
Concrete devices
[edit]Digital computing is intimately tied to the representation of numbers.[1] But long before abstractions like the number arose, there were mathematical concepts to serve the purposes of civilization. These concepts are implicit in concrete practices such as:
Numbers
[edit]Eventually, the concept of numbers became concrete and familiar enough for counting to arise, at times with sing-song mnemonics to teach sequences to others. All known human languages, except the Piraha language, have words for at least the numerals "one" and "two", and even some animals like the blackbird can distinguish a surprising number of items.[5]
Advances in the